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- noun Plural form of
Quechua .
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Examples
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The villages are over 11,000 feet in elevation and home to an indigenous people called the Quechuas, who predate Incans in the area.
Durangoherald.com 2008
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"Someone said that when we Quechuas and Aymaras were in government we'd make a ministry for white people, but we won't discriminate."
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Jan 19 news & blog roundup 2006
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"Someone said that when we Quechuas and Aymaras were in government we'd make a ministry for white people, but we won't discriminate."
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: January 2006 Archives 2006
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“Altomisayoqs Queros”, considered as a direct descendent of Quechuas, one of the tribes of Inca civilization, His Holiness advised the indigenous population to protect their native culture and civilization with modern education.
H.H. the Dalai Lama Successfully Concludes His Visit to Peru 2006
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“Altomisayoqs Queros”, considered as a direct descendent of Quechuas, one of the tribes of Inca civilization, His Holiness advised the indigenous population to protect their native culture and civilization with modern education.
H.H. the Dalai Lama Successfully Concludes His Visit to Peru 2006
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And for the first time in recent history, an Imara leader is actually generating support among the indigenous populations on an explicitly racist or ethnically Indian-based identity platform, so saying whites should get out, whites should leave the country, the land belongs to the Imaras and the Quechuas.
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability 2003
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Yolanda Vargas, director of a program for indigenous Quechuas in Bolivia, which has also signed up for the debt relief program, said it was unfair that Bolivians had to pay off a dlrs 4 billion debt incurred by past military governments - especially since the money was used to buy arms and suppress people demanding democracy and human rights.
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With that lamb-like placidity and that mule-like obstinacy which characterize the antique race of Quechuas, they observed to the chief interpreter that they were weary of falling on their backs or their stomachs at every other step, and that they were resolved to go no farther.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various
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Drame en Vers Quechuas du temps des Incas_, Introd.p. CLXXIII.
Aboriginal American Authors Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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"He's not even favoring the Aymaras and the Quechuas," said Fernando Vargas, one of the protest leaders.
The Seattle Times 2011
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