Newswise — Tell an old Aymara speaker to "face the past!" and you just might get a blank stare in return " because he or she already does. New analysis of the language and gesture of South America's ...

In Walata Chico, an Aymara community near La Paz in Bolivia, elder Bernabé Mamani asked one of the technicians in Aymara during a ceremony to award certificates of competence: “jilata, jichhat uksarux ...

In Bolivia, the slogan “Jiwaspachaw apnaqasjañasa” (“Self-governance is fundamental”) can often be heard in indigenous Aymara communities—in meetings, assemblies, city neighborhoods, conferences, in ...

In northern Chile, Teófila Challapa learned to weave, or make cloth, surrounded by the high hills and sandy roads of the Atacama Desert. “Spin the threads, girl,” her grandmother told her fifty years ...

The author of this story is the Community Manager of Localization Lab. She has worked with Jaqi Aru in the project that translated the Orbot app into Aymara. A community of Aymara language activists ...

LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivian leader Evo Morales came to power in 2006 with a pledge to champion marginalized indigenous groups including his own important Andean tribe the Aymara, which helped carry ...