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JANUARY 2013
Translation for days: Quechua
SUNDAY
intichaw
Christmas
ARMENIA
6
13
20
27
MONDAY
killachaw
7
Orthodox Christmas
14
Seijin no hi – Coming
of Age Day
JAPAN
Martin Luther
King Jr. Day
UNITED STATES
21
28
TUESDAY
atipachaw
New Year’s Day
Kwanzaa ends
1
8
15
22
29
WEDNESDAY
quyllurchaw
2
9
16
23
30
THURSDAY
illapachaw
3
10
17
24
31
FRIDAY
chaskachaw
4
11
18
25
SATURDAY
kuychichaw
5
12
19
26
Playing Tag at 12,000 Feet
Communicating through play and games
School children on a field trip to Qitsqay Hirka, the
mountain above their school in Huaripampa, Peru,
are urged to speak only in Quechua as they play
mamallaachi, a game similar to tag. They are the first
class to have graduated from primary school under
the new bilingual intercultural education program. In
response to the fact that Spanish is rapidly replacing
Quechua in many contexts of life in rural communities
like Huaripampa, the bilingual intercultural education
program reinforces the use and value of the indigenous
Quechua language.
DID YOU
KNOW?
• Machu Picchu. Often referred to as the “Lost City
of the Incas,” Machu Picchu is located in the Andes
Mountains in Cusco, Peru. Archeologists believe
Machu Picchu was built in the 1400s as an estate
for the Incan emperor Pachacuti and abandoned a
century later when the Spanish conquered the Incan
empire. Era 4, 300 –1500 CE/AD
• Túpac Amaru II’s Rebellion. José Gabriel Túpac
Amaru II was the leader of an uprising against the
Spanish in Peru in 1780. The rebellion was sparked
by abuses of the indigenous population by local
authorities of the Spanish crown. At its height,
it mobilized more than 6,000 mostly indigenous
insurgents against Spanish troops. Although Túpac
Amaru was later captured and executed, he became
a symbolic figure in the Peruvian struggle for
independence and the indigenous rights movement.
Era 5, 15th to 18th centuries