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 sing softly in Quechua.

Starting in Spring 2021, the Latin American and Latinx Studies Center has been able to offer a Quechua language program available to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at CU-Boulder. This is ...

Like my grandfather, she was born and raised in Cusco, and the Indigenous tongue of Quechua was her first language—but the rest of my family wouldn’t use it anymore. We weren’t unique ...

SAN PEDRO DE MACHA, Bolivia — In the high altitude Bolivian town of San Pedro de Macha, hundreds of Indigenous Quechua men and women take to the streets for a ritual dance and combat known as ...