Quichua
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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
Back inside, she makes chicken and potato soup and speaks to me in Quichua.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
Whenever I whispered to my classmates in Quichua to ask what letter comes after c or how to make a lowercase /, there came the nails again.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
Mamita pats me on the shoulder and says some things in Quichua.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
As might have been foreseen, he chafed under restraint, escaped as soon as possible from his attentive guardians, and raised an army of faithful Quichuas.
From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Bingham, Hiram
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 Darwin, Charles
The human remains agreed “in all essential respects” with the bones of modern Quichuas.
From Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Bingham, Hiram
"You mean that you would choose to be King over the Chancas rather than stand next to the throne among the Quichuas?" he said, scanning me sharply.
From The Virgin of the Sun by Haggard, Henry Rider
This is especially true of the Southwest, of Central America, and the Andean region, where the Aztec, the Maya, the Quichuas, the Aymaras, and other highly-organized nations held sway over wide regions.
From Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 by Various
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