Quichua
Americannoun
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Quichuas,
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Quichua
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noun
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Blanca Ashanga harvests corn in a field in the Quichua community of San Pedro Sumino in the province of Napo in the Ecuadorean jungle.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2013
The claimants called themselves Los Afectados, or the affected ones, and among their ranks were members of the Cofan and Quichua tribes.
From BusinessWeek ● Mar. 10, 2011
When I ask them eagerly, “What are you reading?” they let me flip through their books, mostly guidebooks with little maps of Otavalo and information about the markets and Quichua culture.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
Sometimes, when she’s talking to neighbors in Quichua, I overhear her say my name with an expression of pride.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
“All right,” he says in Quichua, but then neither of us can think of anything to say, so finally he says, “Good night, Daughter,” and lies down in his bed.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
The Quichuas of Peru must not be confounded with the Quiches of Guatemala.
From The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America by Daniel Garrison Brinton
So far as we could learn by questions and observation, about one quarter of the Quichuas are childless.
From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham
Mr. D. Forbes informs me that the Quichuas in the Andes vary greatly in colour, according to the position of the valleys inhabited by them.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Charles Darwin
Quichuas, a civilised people who flourished at one time in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, and spoke a highly-cultivated language called Quichua after them.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
For the Chancas I cared nothing and for the Quichuas I cared nothing, but Quilla was all that remained to me in the world and if she went, it was to another man.
From The Virgin of the Sun by Henry Rider Haggard
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