Among other things, Europeans have named us and our language Kechwa, Quechua, Quichua, Kechua, Ketchua, Kichwa, and Khetchua. With between 6 and 12 million speakers, Runa Ximi is the most widely spoken of the indigenous languages in the Western Hemisphere. But like many minority languages, ours continues to be eroded. An important part of the human rights movement today is the reclaiming and defense of indigenous rights, languages, religions and cultural institutions. Runa Ximi and other indigenous languages are embedded with ideas that strongly contrast with those of industrial and commercial societies.
Innovation often springs from cultural diversity, comparison and exchange.
If the whole world is homogenized, then we will lose sources of comparison and innovation. For example, traditional Runa people care for children with a pre-Industrial wisdom that may suggest improvements in the ways commercial cultures raise their children. Traditionally-raised Runa children have almost continuous physical contact with the same caregivers. Indigenous cultures also invite cultural comparison in community and environmental ethics, law, music, aesthetics, labor, agriculture, and in politics. This site aims to open a door to the Kechwa language, culture and people.