“By Using Language Rooted in Andes, Internet Show’s Hosts Hope to Save It” (New York Times)

By Kirk Semple Aug. 15, 2014

Segundo J. Angamarca, half-hidden in a thicket of electronic equipment on a recent Friday evening, put on his headphones and glanced around the room, a makeshift Internet radio station in his apartment in the Bronx.

“We’re all set, no?” he asked in Spanish. He punched a few buttons on a console and, leaning into a live microphone, began speaking...

Meet the Young Ecuadorians Behind the First Kichwa-Language Radio Show in the US (Remezcla)

Not far from South Bronx corner bodegas, street vendors, and the Yankee Stadium, stands an unremarkable tan apartment building. You wouldn’t know it from the outside, but in its weathered basement, is a radio studio and haven for New York City’s indigenous Ecuadorian Kichwas, a community of an estimated 10,000.

In Ecuador and Beyond, Indigenous Groups Are Fighting to Be Seen

We spoke to a New York-based activist about the movement for indigenous rights throughout the Americas.

Over the past few years, Indigenous Peoples’ Day has been adopted in a number of states and cities in the United States as a justice-oriented answer to Columbus Day — a way to focus on Indigenous people and acknowledge the impact of Christopher Columbus’s voyages to the Americas on the Native people who were already here. But in addition to being a corrective, the day also highlights the Indigenous groups still preserving their cultures in the United States and abroad…