In Bolivia, thousands of indigenous Andean pilgrims marked their winter solstice Thursday at Incan and Aymara archaeological sites, the beginning of year 5520 on the Aymaran calendar. The rituals ...

Now, with other indigenous Aymara women in Bolivia’s highlands, she is taking things into her own hands with taekwondo classes to learn self-defense. In the high-altitude cities of La Paz and El ...

New analysis of the language and gesture of South America's indigenous Aymara people indicates a reverse concept of time. Contrary to what had been thought a cognitive universal among humans – a ...

Tell an old Aymara speaker to "face the past!" and you just might get a blank stare in return—because he or she already does. New analysis of the language and gesture of South America's ...

In 2015, a group of 11 Aymara Indigenous women set out to climb the mountains of Bolivia. The group, known as Cholita Climbers, make their ascent in traditional Aymaran clothes. They teamed up ...

Every year the museum puts on an expo dedicated to the Aymara girls, known as “cholitas,” stars of its collection of photos from 1925 to the present, as well as to items of clothing from times ...

"And also the women like us, our Aymara sisters said ‘why? This sport is for men.’" Bolivian Aymara wrestler "Carmen Rosa" battles with her cholita opponent in a popular sports gym in La Paz ...

This post is part of our special coverage on Languages and the Internet. One of the newest Global Voices Lingua sites is also its first in an indigenous language, Aymara. This native language is ...

The Aymara of the Andean highlands reverse the perspective, and they're not alone. Ken Olson, a linguistics professor at the University of North Dakota, fills Scott Simon in on the details.

Indigenous protestors outside the Palace of Justice, Peru. Source: DHUMA. All Rights Reserved. In the next few weeks the Supreme Court in Lima, Peru, will decide the ...