AYMARA INDIAN IN PERU

AYMARA INDIANS SPEAK ONE OF THE MAJOR LANGUAGES OF SOUTH AMERICA SPOKEN BY 3 MILLION PEOPLE. IN THE ANDEAN REGION OF BOLIVIA, PERU. THEY HAVE TWO TO EIGHT DIFFERENT AYMARAN LANGUAGES. SOME THINK IT IS RELATED TO AYMARA AND RELATED TO QUECHUA.THESE FOLKS LIVE IN BOLIVIA AND PERUVIAN PLAIN NEAR LAKE TITICACA. TWO SMALL VILLAGES OF INDIANS LIVE IN THE AREA.

SPANISH CONQUEST AFFECTED THE AYMARA TREMENDOUSLY. EPIDEMICS, WARFARE, AND COLONIAL EXPLOITATION LED TO A DECLINE IN THE POPULATION. COLONIAL EXPLOITATION LED TO A DECLINE IN THE POPULATION AS WELL. TODAY THEY HAVE ESTIMATED THAT THERE ARE BETWEEN 600,00 TO 900,000 AYMARA.

PRIOR TO THEIR CONQUEST BY THE INCA IN 1430 THEY WERE ORGANIZED INTO SUBGROUPS. THEY WERE INCLUDED WITH THE INCA THAT RESULTED IN A SIGNIFICANT SHIFT AND LACK OF INDEPENDENCE. BY 1535 THE SPANISH CONQUEST FURTHER FURTHER CHANGED THEM FROM 1820 TO THE . THE AMARA HAVE BEEN UNDER THE RULE OF PERUVIAN AND BOLIVIAN REPUBLICS. IN THE LAST 25 YEARS25 YEARS.

THE MAJORITY OF OF AYMARA ARE DEPENDANT ON AGRICULTURE FOR THEIR SUBSISTENCE. THEY GROW MANY CROPS THEY RAISE SHEEP LLAMAS. CATTLE, ALPACAS, AND FISH, THEIR ECONOMIC STRUCTURE TOOK PLACE IN THE PAST FEW DECADES. PRIOR TO LAND REFORM PROGRAMS, THE MAJORITY OF ALTIPLANO LANDS. MANY AYMARA WERE DEPENDANTS OF THESE ESTATES, EXCHANGING LABOR FOR RIGHTS TO USE THE ARABLE LAND. THE HACIENDA SYSTEM IS WELL DOCUMENTED AND THEIR PRODUCE WAS SIPHONED OFF BY MIDDLEMEN. TODAY THE HACIENDA SYSTEM WELL DOCUMENTED AND THE SYSTEM WAS THEIR PRODUCE WAS SIPHONED OFF BY MIDDLEMEN. TODAY THE HACIENDA SYSTEM IS BREAKING UP AND LAND TENURE HAS CHANGED.

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