Intiq Churin: Children of the Sun

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Intiq Churin Children of the Sun

• Quechua Ethnic and National Identity among the
  Andean people of Peru

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Intiq Churin

• I am a son of the Sun, going to those of my
  race.I'm one of the children of the Sun, going
  to my people I'm a child of the sun, coming for
  a purpose.I've come to find and gather the
  people of the Inca nation.My purpose is to teach
  our values, and our Quechua language.Inca
  child, like myself, in what country are you
  crying?Child of the Sun, like myself, listen to
  my cryIf you listen to my calling, come back to
  our homeland and culture.If you listen my
  calling, come back with our people and remake our
  nation.Inca people, you are alone in this
  world, hold my hand.Inca child, you are not part
  of this world, come home with me.If you come and
  hold my hand, I'll take you to our homeland.If
  you come with me, I'll teach you our Inca
  language.Death o death, do not take me away
  yet,I still have a long way to go, I'm searching
  for my people.I still have a long way to go,
  teaching the Inca way.

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History

• 2600 BC, first origins of Quechua in Perus
  central coast
• 1300s AD Quechua made official language of the
  Inca
• 1530s AD Francisco Pizarro makes first contact
  with indigenous people of Peru.

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Pre-Contact

• Social hierarchy
• Elaborate trade system
• Subsistence Agriculture
• Redistributive economy

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Spanish colonization c. 1530-1820s

• Introduction of the encomienda system
• Shift to export economy
• Mono-cropping

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Independence c. 1820s- Present

• Free-trade policy, third-world exploitation
• Comunidades campesinas
• Official language recognition
• Sendero Luminoso ( transl Shining Path)

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Language and Ethnic Identity

• Quechua as a symbol
• Old vs. New orthography (created by Juan Velasco,
  1975)
• Old Roman Orthography Inca, quipu, tambo
• New Quechuan orthography Inka, khipu, tampu
• Adopted Vocabulary

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Problems

• Barrier to socioeconomic aspiration
• Understandings lost in translation
• Bilingual education debates
• Social/ financial support
• Lack of written material
• Serious double-bind

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Conclusions

• Haku pasapusun wayqellay llaqtanchiqmi
  suyawanchis.Haku pasapusun hermanoy wasinchiqmi
  suyawanchis. Ayacuchano valiente venceremos la
  injusticia.

• Brothers, let's go back to our town, which is
  waiting for us.Brothers, let's go back homes,
  which are waiting for us.Courageous Ayacuchano,
  we will conquer the injustice.

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