Quechua people have never been a monolithic group, nor a static culture, but rather one shaped by 500 years of resistance since colonization.

Peru: People of the Altiplano. Season 1 Episode 110 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Host Dave Yetman meets Quechua people and learns about their past and present. In cities such as ...

Quechua pop, hip hop, ... Around 10 million people speak it in countries such as Peru and Colombia. Sisa Quispe is one of those 10 million. She says rap, hip-hop, ...

Although there have been protests across the country, the vast majority of deaths were among demonstrators in southern Peru, where indigenous Aymara and Quechua people maintain their own languages ...

For Quechua people, the act of weaving is both social and communal. The entire extended family gathers outside as the looms are unrolled, the weavings uncovered and work begins.

In a story from the Quechua people in Peru, a hummingbird fetches drops of water to help put out a great forest fire. The other animals laugh at her, but the bird replies, “I’m doing what I ...

For the first 10 years of her life, Tarcila Rivera-Zea lived a cloistered existence. Growing up in the Peruvian Andes as part of the Quechua Indigenous community, she spoke only the Quechua language.

Quechua, also known as Runasimi (meaning “the people’s tongue”), served as the official language of the Tawantinsuyu, led by the Incas. Today it is spoken by an estimated 10 million people ...