The Quechua Alliance is a community organization that promotes and celebrates

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culture in the

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Annual meetings

Since 2015, the Quechua Alliance has held annual meetings where students, activists, academics, and the interested public participate to learn about innovative projects in the different varieties of Quechua, as well as to raise awareness about the relevance of the Indigenous languages of the Americas. For each edition, about one-hundred people from across the US participate. The first editions were held at the

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, in Philadelphia (2015, 2016, 2018) and also has been hosted at

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in New York City (2017), at

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in Columbus (2019), at the

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(2020 - virtual), and at

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(2023) in the

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area.

Quechua Award for Lifetime Achievement

The Quechua Alliance yearly acknowledges persons who have dedicated their lives to the promotion of Quechua languages and Andean culture. The awardees include:

Clodoaldo Soto Ruiz Clodoaldo Soto Ruiz is a Peruvian scholar, author and former Quechua professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Education and career He taught Quechua for more than 25 years at the University of Illinois. He published dictio ...

(2015), Julia García (2016),

Kichwa Hatari Kichwa Hatari is the first Kichwa-language radio station in the United States, broadcasting in a variation of the Quechua language spoken by indigenous Ecuadorean Kichwas. History Kichwa Hatari was founded in 2014 in New York, to broadcast from Ne ...

(2017), Elva Ambía (2018), Luis Morato (2019) and Yarina (2023).

Awards on Quechua Digital Activism

Since 2020, in collaboration with the Quechua programs at the universities of Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Peru's Ministry of Culture, those awards were created with the aim of raising awareness of the importance of language rights for Indigenous Languages speakers and to recognize the work of educators using digital platforms in Quechua.

References

{{Reflist Quechuan languages Indigenous languages of the Andes Indigenous rights in the United States Indigenous culture in the United States