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Quechua woman with llamas in the Department of Cuzco Girl, wearing indigenous clothing, with llama near Plaza de Armas in Cusco. Quechua people cultivate and eat a variety of foods. They domesticated potatoes and cultivated thousands of potato varieties, which are used for food and medicine. Climate change is threatening their potato and other ...
24 December 1950 (age 73) San Francisco de Pujas, Ayacucho, Peru. Awards. Order of Merit for Women (2010), Visionary Award (2011) Tarcila Rivera Zea (born 24 December 1950) [1] is a Quechua activist, member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues since her election on 5 April 2016 [2][3] and awarded with the Visionary Award ...
Ñusta, which roughly translates to "princess" in the Quechua language, is a term for a highly noble or upper-class woman of Inca or Andean birth. Inca noblewomen were essentially part of the Inca Empire also called "Tawantinsuyu" where they spoke the traditional Inca spoken language "Quechua." [1] Ñustas were not full descendants of Inca royalty.
Jewel (first cousin once removed) Yule F. Kilcher (great-grandfather) Q'orianka Waira Qoiana Kilcher (/ ˌkɒriˈæŋkə ˈkɪltʃər /; [1] born February 11, 1990) is an American actress. Her best known film roles are Pocahontas in Terrence Malick 's 2005 film The New World, and Kaʻiulani in Princess Kaiulani (2009). In 2020, she starred in a ...
Occupation. Singer-Songwriter. Known for. Quechua-language trap songs, indigenous activism, song covers translated to Quechua. Renata Flores Rivera is a Peruvian singer, made famous in South America by a viral Quechua cover of Michael Jackson's "The Way You Make Me Feel", released in 2015. [2][3][4][5]
Dayuma (also Dayumae) (born ca. 1930, - March 1, 2014) was a member of the Huaorani tribe and a citizen of Ecuador.She is a central figure in the Operation Auca saga, in that she was the first Huao to convert to Christianity, as well as the missionaries' key to unlocking the Huaorani language, a language that had not been previously studied.
Magaly Solier. Magaly Solier Romero (born 11 June 1986) [1] is a Peruvian actress and singer. Magaly Solier Romero was born on 11 June 1986 in to a Quechua family, the province of Huanta, in the region of Ayacucho in Peru. [1][2] She speaks the indigenous language of Quechua, as well as Spanish. [1] Solier has publicly spoken about the ...
Cuxirimay Ocllo (Classical Quechua: Kuši Rimay Uqllu) (born before 1532–d. after 1576), also known as Doña Angelina Yupanqui, was a princess and consort of the Inca Empire by marriage to her cousin, the Sapa Inca Atahualpa (r. 1532–1533).