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Indian languages -- and politicians -- gain in S. America; Peru's legislature hears something new: Quechua
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LIMA, Peru -- Hilaria Supa stands out in Lima in her brightly
hued ancestral clothes. But she is even more of an iconoclast in the
Peruvian legislature, where the congresswoman insists on speaking in
her native Quechua.
In doing so, Supa says, she hopes to create a new era of
inclusion for the Indians who have long been discriminated against
in Peru.
"When we speak in Quechua they say it's rude because they don't
understand us," she says. "But my hope is that the language wil...
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