“By holding on to the main axis of where we come from we'll understand this modern world and globalization.”

Jun 14

Nivardo Carillo Guttierez (nee-vahr-doe kah-ree-yo ggee-terr-rez)

artist, reenactor

IMAGE SOURCE: “Agencia Super Tours. [@Super_tours]. “En el I Congreso Internacional de Enfermería Pediátrica se tendrá a Nivardo Carrillo Gutierrez.” Twitter. 17 Apr. 2017. | TEXT SOURCE: “The Living Road, a Short Story in Three Parts.” Vimeo. NMAI Media Group. 2015.

QUOTE CONTEXT: “My feeling and my thought is only to strengthen cultural identity in the children and in the young people that they know the ancestral cultural life of the Inka.”

QUOTE QUESTION: How do you find the main axis of where your People come from?

IMAGE CONTEXT: In his reenactor role as the” Son of the sun god,” the supreme authority of the Inka empire.

IMAGE QUESTION: How do you choose to represent the spirit of your ancestors?

MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote is from a video produced by the National Museum of the American Indian. The photo is from a tweet from a travel agency.

MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: How do you decide which organizations can best serve the media communication needs of your People?

“By holding on to the main axis of where we come from we'll understand this modern world and globalization.”

Nivardo Carillo Guttierez (nee-vahr-doe kah-ree-yo ggee-terr-rez)

“The Hongi (pressing noses) is something we do when we greet someone…The sharing of the breath connects our Mauri (life force). We are no longer separate. We are one!”

“We Quechua people live far from the state. For us, the state is another nation. They have never come to our communities to ask how things work. We have even built the schools ourselves.”