Tag: indigenous
Ecuadorian Indigenous Peoples Criticize Noboa’s Draft Bill on Protected Areas
Ecuadorian indigenous leaders call for constitutionally required consultation before the approval of a new protected areas law that Noboa’s government is trying to enact, warning that it threatens their ancestral lands.
July 8, 2025
The Quechua People – A Living Culture of the Andes
The Quechuas are one of the largest Indigenous groups in South America, living in the Andes Mountains and Amazonian regions of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia. Their shared language is Quechua, also known as Runasimi, meaning “language of the people.” The earliest Quechua groups settled in northern Chile around 8000 BC. They were […]