Keywords
Inga
Colombia
Colombian amazon
indigeneous university
Colombia
Colombian amazon
indigeneous university
How to Cite
The Inga indigenous people of Colombia as "the guardians of the land." Inga community and Communities’ leader Hernando Chindoy Chindoy. (2023). Alternautas, 10(1), 191-194. https://doi.org/10.31273/an.v10i1.1405
Abstract
The leader of the Inga community shares some of the ideas behind the construction of an indigenous university in the Putumayo region of the Colombian Amazon. He also presents the book "Una Nueva Universidad Indígena en la Selva en Colombia" (A New Indigenous University in the Rainforest in Colombia).

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