19/08/2026
For centuries, missionaries tried to strip the Kamëntšá and Inga peoples of southwest Colombia of their language and culture. They failed.
I spent three months conducting anthropological research in the Sibundoy Valley, a verdant basin nestled between the Andes and the Amazon in southwest Colombia. There, the Indigenous cultures of the Kamëntšá and Inga peoples coexist alongside the majority mestizo population and an influx of forei...