Date of Award
2002
Document Type
Honors Thesis (Open Access)
Department
Colby College. Global Studies Program
Advisor(s)
Ben W. Fallaw
Second Advisor
Jeff Anderson
Abstract
The Ecuadorian indigenous movement has emerged in the last decade as the most important social and political movement in the country. The driving organizations behind the movement, CONAIE (Confederadon de Nacionalidades Indigenas del Ecuador), a social organization. and Pachakutik Movimiento Pluri-Nacional (Pluri-national movement), a political organization, have taken different approaches to fortifying indigenous identities, challenging the policies of the Ecuadorian government, and uprooting the subtle but persistent racist ideologies that have been discriminatory and exclusionary for over 500 years. I argue that Pachakutik's involvement within the political system has a greater chance of effecting long-term change for indigenous peoples in Ecuador than the social movement that remains separate from the state's political system.
Keywords
Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador, Indigenous peoples, Government relations, Ecuador, Pachakutik, Indigenous Movement
Recommended Citation
Kittredge, Eliza Cooke, "Time of Pachakutik: an Examination of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement" (2002). Honors Theses. Paper 256.https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/honorstheses/256
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