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Marc with Luis Catucuamba Cacuango, founder of Indigenous schools in Cayambe and daughter of Indigenous leader Dolores Cacauango |
Preliminary work on a project to make archival materials on Indigenous movements in Ecuador available to a broader audience.
Conferencia de Cabecillas Indígenas / PDF / Spanish transcription / English Translation
A November 1935 flyer announcing the closing session of the Conferencia de Cabecillas Indígenas (Conference of Indigenous Leaders) at the Casa del Obrero in Quito to create a regional or national organization to defend Indigenous interests.
Source: Presídium de la Conferencia de Cabecillas Indígenas, "Hoy se Clasura la Conferencia de Cabecillas Indígenas" (Quito: Editorial de El Correo, November 7, 1935), Hojas Volantes, 1933-1938, p. 298, Biblioteca Ecuatoriana Aurelio Espinosa Pólit (BEAEP), Cotocollao, Ecuador.
Federación Ecuatoriana de Indios
The Federación Ecuatoriana de Indios (FEI, Ecuadorian Federation of Indians) was the first successful attempt in Ecuador to establish a national federation for and by Indigenous peoples. These are documents from and about the federation.
Ñucanchic Allpa
Ñucanchic Allpa (Quechua: "Our Land") was a bilingual newspaper that Indigenous
activists and their allies published on and off from the 1930s to the 1960s. Government officials
complained about its distribution in rural communities, and the threat that it represented to their
hegemonic control over the Indigenous population. Despite a team of investigators searching
archival collections throughout Ecuador and internationally, we have only been able to locate five
issues of this important publication.