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Rescate Sin Recursos: La Enseñaza Aymara En Codpa Y Putre, Amy Johnson

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Throughout Chile over the past fifteen years there has been a communal and legal movement to reclaim the heritage of native groups and to emphasize the importance of an intercultural society. In the past seven years, a variety of educational programs prompted by the Ley Indígena of 1993 have begun to take shape with the main goal of educating youth of indigenous origins about their ancestral societies. However, in the rural towns of Putre and Codpa in the region of Arica y Parinacota, the results of the first few years of these programs have been marginal, due to the lack …