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5 de septiembre, día internacional de la mujer indígena #mapuche #guarani #quichua #quiche #chilote #amazonas #karitiana #yaminahua #quechua #charrua #kallaway #kallawaya #muisca

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Folklife Festivals come and go – just as soon as one ends, we begin to prepare for the next! However, each Festival creates meaningful relationships and future opportunities to share cultural heritage and living traditions. This week, the 2013 Folklife Festival lives on in an exchange co-sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia (Embajada de Estados Unidos en Bolivia) and the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. The first part of the exchange brought six Kallawaya medicinal practitioners and textile weavers from the Andean highlands of Bolivia to the U.S. to participate in the 2013 Festival program One World, Many Voices. The second part happened just this week and brought members of Oregon’s Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians to Bolivia with the goal of introducing indigenous Bolivians to Native American experts on language and cultural heritage revitalization in the United States. Read more here on the Folklife website: http://bit.ly/1kVZsJ1