Inca Indians Return Home - Peru

Nov 1996
A report on Inca Indians returning home a decade after they fled from 'Shining Path' savagery. Back in their highland villages, the Incas are bent double gathering in the harvest. When they have threshed the grain, they kneel down in the straw and offer thanks to 'Mother Earth'. Brightly woven clothes and fluttering ribbons belie ten years' suffering at the hands of Peru's infamous revolutionaries. Dismissing the Incas as ignorant peasants, the Shining Path were brutal in their attempt to impose revolutionary ideals. Maria, recruited by the Shining Path when she was 16, recalls how her leaders shot two peasants in front of her. She was then given a revolver and told to shoot dissenting villagers. In a grey shanty town outside of Lima, Jose Paiwa lives with his children and one granddaughter. He fled from the highlands after his son was killed along with 18 others. Recently, under pressure from the government, he took his family home. But without equipment or food, he was forced to leave his overgrown land and return to his city shack. To avert future conflicts, local villagers have formed militia groups and women have turned to evangelical Christianity.

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[biok24]

I am proud to be Peruvian! of living in the Peruvian mountains, q my culture is far better American pop culture, Cholo soy!

[gio517moonwalker]

i am proud to be a african,french,italian,america­n, but most of all im proud to be a peruvian. not many people don't know about peru but its a country that has so much history in it. the incas were the roman empire of south america.

[willliu8944]

were exterminated 500 years ago. I felt so sad at that time. Really glad to know their legacy remained to this day. I will definitely start learning Spanish this year and visit Peru after the graduate school.

[willliu8944]

When I was in china in grade 7 I was really fascinated by the incas culture in the history textbook, but our teacher tells us all the indigenous civilization of the America'

[CrazyNative4]

i like and met many friendly incas when i went to peru several years ago!

(i don't speak spanish)

[budabuda23]

el gobierno les dio una pala nomas... Osea nice way to help them!

[BlackJack78]

@eXcPlus Pero independientemente de su origen, tambien se sabe que el idioma cambia, y lo importante es que ahora se utiliza como sinónimo de mezcla sobre mezcla que ha tenido nuestra poblacion, así que no hay que hacerse problema por ello.

Que una parte de nuestro subconsciente social aun le de una connotación negativa es porque aun somos una sociedad racista, pero sigo pensando que la mejor forma de autodenominarnos es cholo, somos producto de la mezcla, sobre la mezcla.

[BlackJack78]

@eXcPlus Ni tu mismo sabes bien el significado (ni tampoco escribir bien). Esa tesis la dio a conocer el Inca Garcilaso de la Vega en sus Comentarios Reales de los Incas.

Pero no es la unica, otros dicen que deriva de "xolo", vocablo nahuatl que significa sirviente, basados en escritos de Fray Alonso de Molina en 1571. Y nuestra María Rostworowski sugiere que proviene del mochica donde cholu significa 'muchacho, joven'.

[pelotita777]

This video is intended to show part of the CULTURE of Peru - an ethnic race living up inthe highlands of this wonderful but unfortunately somewhow aggressive country. Congratulations for showing this! - El Perú es un país étnico y el video lo único que trata de mostrar es parte de la cultura de nuestra realidad en la sierra del Perú.. no veo por que siempre tienen que opinar los mismos Peruanos con agresividad - aquí nadie esta insultando u ofendiendo a nadie. Soy Peruano y con orgullo!

[lualrojo]

@gaae2000 THIS IS THE POOR PEOPLE OF PERU, I WANNA SEE A VIDEO OF THE BRONX NOW.

[lualrojo]

THE BROX = EE.UU.??? INDIANS = PERU???  PERU HAVE MANY RACES, THE WORLD CHAMPION IN FEMALE SURFING IS PERUVIAN. GRINGO IGNORANTE.