Steph Littlebird is an artist, curator, writer, and a registered member of Oregon’s Grand Ronde Confederated Tribes.

As a descendant of the Chinook and Kalapuyan people, Littlebird makes sure that much of her artwork challenges mainstream portrayals of Native people.

As an artist, Littlebird’s work combines traditional aesthetics with contemporary materials and subject matter to forge connections between our collective past and imminent future.

Her works frequently engage issues related to present-day indigenous identities, marginalized histories, and responsible land stewardship.

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https://www.stephlittlebird.com/ https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Steph_Littlebird

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Esther Belin is the author of two poetry books and coeditor of ‘The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature’.

Belin’s visual art combines a variety of disciplines and works to reframe the mythical primitivism often associated with indigenous cultures.

She is a citizen of the Navajo Nation and a member of ‘Saad Bee Hózhǫ́’, a Diné Writers’ Collective. She teaches in the Native American and Indigenous studies department at Fort Lewis College. In 2025, she was invited by the Poetry Foundation in Chicago to be the guest editor of its March issue dedicated to Diné poetry.

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/issue/1651121/march-2025

https://estherbelin.com/

https://poets.org/poet/esther-belin#tabbed-content

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Belin

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/esther-belin

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/esther-belin#tab-poems

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Interviews conducted

by Marco Rixecker

https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker

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Radio Aula Mundi, November 2025

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e7pEH8ldsVqlM272Ly4wwBQ&si=Db9cnIDPtz9uNC8O

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At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center

https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

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Mily Treviño-Sauceda is an American writer, trade unionist and executive director of ‘Alianza Nacional De Campesinas’, the National Alliance of Farmworker Women, a nonprofit organization advocating for the safety and rights of women laborers in agriculture.

She is celebrated as a founder of the women’s farmworker movement in the United States.

Woody Guthrie’s ‘Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)’ is a protest song detailing the January 28, 1948 crash of a plane near Los Gatos Canyon,

20 miles (32 km) west of Coalinga in Fresno County, California, United States.

The song honors the Mexican victims, mostly farmworkers, who had been deported, and expresses outrage about a news reel on the radio maligning them as being ‘just deportees’.

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https://www.alianzanacionaldecampesinas.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mily_Trevi%C3%B1o-Sauceda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportee_(Plane_Wreck_at_Los_Gatos)

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Interview conducted in English, Spanish, and Spanglish by Marco Rixecker

https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker

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Radio Aula Mundi, October 2025

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At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center

https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

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Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate is a Chickasaw classical composer and pianist.

His compositions are inspired by North American Indian history, culture, and language.

Among many recent premieres, Tate’s highlights include commissions from the New York Philharmonic and Turtle Island Quartet.

On August 15, 2025, the Dover Quartet released their newest album ‘Abokkoli Taloowa’ (Woodland Songs), which features two new suites of music by Jerod Tate in addition to a string quartet by the late 19th, early 20th century Czech composer Antonín Dvo’ák. ‘Abokkoli Taloowa’ (Woodland Songs) contains five movements, each representing a different woodland creature.

Preceding this composition on the album is Tate’s orchestral arrangement of Tuscarora-Taino singer-songwriter Pura Fé’s ‘Rattle Songs’, a piece in seven movements. Pura Fé is one of the founding members of Ulali, an indigenous women’s group of oral musicians who combine native roots and contemporary styles with vocals, stomping, and rattling turtle shells. Jerod Tate is currently at work on a new violin concerto for acclaimed violinist Irina Muresanu, as well as new works for the Oklahoma City Philharmonic and North Carolina Symphony Orchestra.

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https://jerodtate.com/

https://m.youtube.com/jerodtatevideos

https://www.doverquartet.com/

https://jerodtate.com/woodland-songs/

https://www.curtis.edu/100-for-100/rattle-songs/

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Interview conducted

by Marco Rixecker

https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker

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Radio Aula Mundi, October 2025

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e7pEH8ldsVqlM272Ly4wwBQ&si=Db9cnIDPtz9uNC8O

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At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center

https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

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Hataałii is a Diné (Navajo) singer, songwriter, and poet born Hataałiinez Wheeler in Window Rock, AZ, the capital of the Navajo Nation.

His name comes from the Navajo term ‘hatałii’, also spelled ‘yataalii’, which means ‘singer’ in English. Singers are medicine men who perform traditional healing ceremonies and blessing rites intended to protect and cure the body, mind, and spirit.

Hataałii's music focuses on obscurantist details giving way to trenchant observations about paranoia, accountability, and postcolonial fallout. Hataałii also confronts the nuanced challenges and perceptions around the indigenous community.

He currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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https://dangerbirdrecords.com/artists/hataalii/

https://ffm.to/brownfooleyes

https://linktr.ee/Hataalii

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Interview conducted

by Marco Rixecker

https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker

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Why bother?

2 questions, 5 senses...

Reflections on our arts and crafts...

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e5T_IIUzp5J6Svv1zhXlEEk&si=mqKVhiYOBJljMdl5

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Radio Aula Mundi,

October 2025

At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center

https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

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Preston Singletary is a Native American musician glass artist.

He grew up in the Seattle area listening to the stories told by his Tlingit great-grandparents.

His art has become synonymous with the relationship between Tlingit culture and fine art.

His glass sculptures deal with themes of Tlingit mythology and traditional designs, while also using music to shape his contemporary perspective of Native culture.

Preston Singletary is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions.

He still lives and works in Seattle.

His funk/jazz band Khu.éex’ has just released a double album titled, 'Red Cedar in the Hour of Chaos.', which blends a Funk-inspired sound with hip-hop, doom metal, psychedelia, Tlingit, Haida, and other Native roots and languages.

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https://www.prestonsingletary.com/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yMBRDK182SI

https://www.khueex.com/

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Omar Figueroa Turcios is an award-winning Colombian illustrator and caricaturist.

He was born in Corozal, Sucre. Colombia, and has worked as a collaborator with several Colombian newspapers including El Heraldo, Diario del Caribe, El Tiempo, El Espectador, Revista Cromos, Semana, etc.

He currently lives in Spain, where he publishes his work in the daily newspaper El Economista.

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https://indexdeilustracion.com/omar-figueroa-turcios/

http://caricaturcios.blogspot.com/?m=1

https://m.youtube.com/user/TURCIOSart/videos

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In this series, Radio Aula Mundi tries to build bridges between people by having them ask questions for anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world… https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e6_Q2wdtTrDQ1w2Ehh-vzvK

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Interviews conducted by Marco Rixecker https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker

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Radio Aula Mundi, October 2025

At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Cente

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https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

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Daisychain is a female-fronted blues/psych rock band based out of Chicago. Drawing from influences like Patti Smith, Melvins, The Velvet Underground, and Jack White, audiences can expect expressive guitar solos, a dynamic rhythm section, and smoky vocal harmonies all paying homage to a familiar sound.

Their debut album, ‘All In A Name’, has been released June 27, 2025, and was produced by Sylvia Massy, who had worked with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Prince.

The band is currently finishing a tour in the US and will be touring Europe in the fall, starting in late October...

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https://www.daisychainmusic.net/

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC4EBZwe3YvBq3Snb5q2imAw

https://daisychainmusic.bandcamp.com/

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K. D. Harryman is the author of Girls’ Book of Knots, published in 2023 from BlazeVox Books, as well as Auto Mechanic’s Daughter (Akashic, 2007).

The recipient of the 2019 Rumi Prize and the 2018 James Hearst Poetry Prize, she serves as the poetry editor for Five South.

She is originally from Kentucky and lives in Los Angeles.

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https://poets.org/poet/k-d-harryman

https://karenharryman.com/

http://wp.blazevox.org/product/girls-book-of-knots-by-k-d-harryman/

https://twitter.com/poetrybite

https://www.instagram.com/poetrybite/?hl=en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu

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In this series, Radio Aula Mundi tries to build bridges between people by having them ask questions for anyone, anytime, anywhere in the world… https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e6_Q2wdtTrDQ1w2Ehh-vzvK

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Interviews conducted by Marco Rixecker https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker

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Radio Aula Mundi, September 2025

At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center

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https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e7pEH8ldsVqlM272Ly4wwBQ&si=32mCc1rHxF6P2_k9

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e5lZU4LDuNWY8e7lzTVK4mt&si=_GoKP4ZOtLujYK_z

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Américo Mendoza Mori, a Peruvian researcher and teacher of Latin American and Indigenous Studies at Harvard University, introduces himself in Quechua…

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The following narrative includes excerpts from a collection of testimonies and interviews entitled ‘The Universal Phrasebook Of Indigenous Languages (UPIL), where it is all about the voices, accents, and speech patterns of indigenous people anywhere in the world, hand in hand with my own personal anecdotes and observations.

In addition to that, everybody is free to introduce themselves and speak their minds openly in their respective, often endangered, languages and dialects, without any paraphrases or expectations.

So, let the story go on from there…

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZ8NJV31?binding=paperback&ref=dbs_dp_sirpi

https://read.amazon.com/sample/B0FRXSFFYG?f=1&l=en_US&r=548c96a4&rid=XQKMQE17ERJE35DF4JEG&sid=145-9829674-6449641&cid=AHQD1ELYSZHT8&ref_=litb_m

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“Allinllanmi. Sutiqa Americo Mendoza Mori.

Ñoqa Perusuyumanta kani.

Kunanmi Boston llastarpi kachkani.”

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• allin good

/’AL-yin/ well

very

• suti name

/’SUE-tea/

• suyu corner

/’SUE-you/ country

-manta suffix indicating an

/’MAHN-ta/ origin or topic

o example:

Peru suyumanta kani

/pea’ROO sue-you-‘MAHN-ta ‘KAH-nee/

I come from Peru

• kunan presently

/’KOO-nahn/

o kunanmi now

/koo’NAHN-me/

o kunanqa now

/koo’NAHNG-hja/

• llaqta city

/’LLAHJ-ta/ (llastar) settlement

town

village

-pi suffix indicating a

/pea/ location, position

o example:

yachaywasipi llamk’ani

/’YAH-tshaee-wa’SEE-pea

llamk’`AH-nee/

I work in the school

o example:

llaqtapi kachkani

/llahj’TAH-pea katsh’KAH-nee/

I live in the city

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4,400,000:

Number of Quechua speakers in Peru, according to one of the most recent official estimates, making it about 13 % of the entire population of Peru.

Americo Mendoza Mori’s Quechua would be a variant or dialect, possibly from the Ica area in Southern Peru or the Peruvian Amazon, two places he mentions in our conversation as part of his background.

Américo Mendoza Mori currently works as a researcher and teacher of Latin American and Indigenous Studies at Harvard University.

His work and research were featured in the New York Times and at the United Nations.

He has also worked as a cultural consultant for Paramount Pictures to introduce dialogues in Quechua in the 2019 movie ‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’.

Previously he has launched and coordinated the Quechua Language Program at the University of Pennsylvania.

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https://ameriqo.net/bio/

https://web.sas.upenn.edu/quechua/americo-mendoza-mori/

https://emr.fas.harvard.edu/people/americo-mendoza%E2%80%93mori

https://scholar.harvard.edu/americo/home

Américo Mendoza Mori: “Where does the word 'jerky' come from?” on YouTube

Let's talk about it, anywhere in the world # 14: Américo Mendoza Mori

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Radio Aula Mundi, September 2025

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e7pEH8ldsVqlM272Ly4wwBQ&si=Db9cnIDPtz9uNC8O

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At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center

https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

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Her question is an ongoing topic and issue, especially for indigenous communities, due to tariffs, immigration policies, authoritarianism, especially in the United States…

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Ellen Jones is a British literary translator from Spanish to English, an editor, and an occasional writer based in Mexico City.

https://youtu.be/jFjb0P8eDpg?si=Tvie5eABqnteH5fI

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Rebecca Webster is an Oneida teacher, author, and food activist from Wisconsin. She currently teaches American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

https://youtu.be/sGiUa1eszS8?si=Ci21MRS0g41YA7Kc

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Margaret Noodin is an American poet and Anishinaabemowin language teacher. She is Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

https://youtu.be/TKyKtTQrjeU?si=461qAsuTexrGRBEr

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Nicaela Leon is a Quechua linguist and illustrator from Bolivia.

https://youtu.be/qBB9xuUkY18?si=BH3wfGIAxj6NAeOV

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Amy R. Juan comes from the communities of Comobabi, Ali Cukson, and Wecij Oidag on the Tohono O’odham Nation.

https://youtu.be/0kFLB5rSgqk?si=GqEO0m2789glbKyj

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Interviews conducted

by Marco Rixecker

https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker

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Radio Aula Mundi, September 2025

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e7pEH8ldsVqlM272Ly4wwBQ&si=Db9cnIDPtz9uNC8O

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At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center

https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

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The following narrative includes excerpts from ‘Since The Age Of Our Grandfathers’, a travelogue which is part of a collection of testimonies and interviews entitled ‘The Universal Phrasebook Of Indigenous Languages (UPIL), where it is all about the voices, accents, and speech patterns of indigenous people anywhere in the world, hand in hand with my own personal anecdotes and observations. In addition to that, everybody is free to introduce themselves and speak their minds openly in their respective, often endangered, languages and dialects, without any paraphrases or expectations.

So, let the story go on from there…

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZ8NJV31?binding=paperback&ref=dbs_dp_sirpi

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNRRR83W?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520

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“I speak only some Yanesha.

For example, for dog, we say ‘oochec’.

And, for chicken, we say ‘atóllop’.

So, I know a little, but I don’t know it well.

And for you guys, who are not from around here, who don’t come from the forest, we use the word ‘oc’. It means not being part of our community not being Yanesha.

So, the word ‘oc’ means ‘foreigner’.”

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Messyna, an international student of English and Spanish, repeats and pronounces Atilio Gonzales’s examples in the Yanesha language…

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atóllop /a’TALL-yup/ chicken

oochec /’OH-checkh/ dog

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Oc /OHqh/

This is the Yanesha word for mestizo, gringo, or any white or tall person. Literally, it refers to anyone not living in the rainforest.

Other words and meanings derived from it include…

- Ocanesha’

Mestizo population

- Ocach

Mestizo language, Spanish, or Castilian Spanish

- Ocom

Mestizo clothing

- Ocrech

Mestizo music, or singing in Spanish

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The Yanesha culture is located in the Amazon rainforest, mostly in the upper regions of the eastern slope of the Andes, in Peru.

The Yanesha language belongs to the larger Arawak language family. It uses words for items the meaning of which is difficult to conceptualize in a European language like Spanish.

An indigenous language like Yanesha is deeply intertwined with many cultural traditions.

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Interview conducted in the Yanesha village of Tsachopen, near Oxapampa, Peru, by Marco Rixecker and Luis Deza León

https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker

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Radio Aula Mundi, September 2025

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e7pEH8ldsVqlM272Ly4wwBQ&si=Db9cnIDPtz9uNC8O

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At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center

https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

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The following narrative includes excerpts from a currently untitled collection of testimonies and interviews, where it is all about people’s voices, accents, and speech patterns, hand in hand with my own personal anecdotes and observations.

In addition to that, people are free to introduce themselves and speak their minds openly in their indigenous languages, without any paraphrases or expectations.

The goal is to create a ‘Universal Phrasebook Of Indigenous Languages’ (‘UPIL’).

So, let the story go on from there…

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZ8NJV31?binding=paperback&ref=dbs_dp_sirpi

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNRRR83W?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520

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“There is a song that I’m going to share with you now. It was given to me by my mother, after my grandmother had passed away. It is a Yanesha lullaby, and it goes like this…”

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Morreñéts

/,morr(h)e(y)’NYETS/

=

Song, Canción

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1. Nocop morreñéts atarr (nanac) cohuen(tena). Ñamha phocop?

/no'COP/ /,morr(h)e(y)’NYETS/ /’Atar((s)h)/ (/na'NAC/) /co’HWEN(,ten-a)/.

/nya'MYA/ /pyo’COP/?

“To me, the song sounds very beautiful.

What about you?”

“Para mí, esta canción suena muy bonita.

Qué te parece?”

2.Nápa’ xho’.

/NApa`/ /jho`/

“I agree.”

“Estoy de acuerdo.”

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The Yanesha culture is located in the Amazon rainforest, mostly in the upper regions of the eastern slope of the Andes, in Peru.

The Yanesha language belongs to the larger Arawak language family. It uses words for items the meaning of which is difficult to conceptualize in a European language like Spanish.

An indigenous language like Yanesha is deeply intertwined with many cultural traditions.

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Interview conducted in the Yanesha village of Tsachopen, near Oxapampa, Peru, by Marco Rixecker and Luis Deza León

https://www.amazon.com/author/marcorixecker

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Radio Aula Mundi, August 2025

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J-iNFOJ5e7pEH8ldsVqlM272Ly4wwBQ&si=Db9cnIDPtz9uNC8O

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At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken…

It’s a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the ‘Aula Mundi International Cultural Center’…

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Radio Aula Mundi

Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi

Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center

https://linktr.ee/radioaulamundi

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