Rising Voices (RV): How do you like to introduce yourself? Valeria Obando Quitiaquez: Soy Valeria Obando Quitiaquez, hija de los Andes. Nací en el Resguardo Indígena Gran Tescual, bajo el abrigo del ...

Quechua is one of the most vibrant and important languages of the Americas. With around 7-8 million speakers in the Americas, most of them concentrated in the Andean region in South America, the ...

It's not Spanish, and it's not Latin. Quechua is a language all its own. Around 10 million people speak it in countries such as Peru and Colombia. Sisa Quispe is one of those 10 million. She says rap, ...

As digital content in the Quechua language continues to become increasingly available, Quechua-speaking communities are gaining more opportunities to better represent themselves online and connect ...

CCARHUACC LICAPA, Peru (AP) — Leila Ccaico walked slowly to the front of her class in a rural village in the Andes. Reluctantly, she faced her classmates, obeyed her teacher’s orders and started to ...

Doris Loayza is a native Quechua and Spanish speaker, educator, and multimedia producer from Peru. She teaches high school Spanish (in Bloomington, IN), is a Quechua language partner for the Center ...