{"id":6,"date":"2016-08-03T15:50:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T22:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eportfoliosandbox\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2017-04-03T02:27:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T09:27:05","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/saucamac\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Victor"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ayni\"

Ayni Amawta in the Sleeping Lion Rock, Saraguro (Kichwa: Ayni=Gathering\/teamwork, Amawta: Wise). By Victor Sauca 2016.<\/p><\/div>\n

I am from the southern region of Ecuador, \u00a0South America. I belong the
\nSaraguro people which is part of Kichwa nation. Kichwa is my mother tongue but due to socio-cultural circumstances I couldn’t learn it (I am working on that now). The first half of my life passed in the Amazon rainforest and the second in the highlands–Andes. Currently, I am a second year student majoring in First Nations and Indigenous Studies (FNIS) with a minor in Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice (GRSJ) at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.<\/p>\n

I am really interested in Indigenous cosmologies, knowledge, politics, and so forth, from all over the Americas. Since my childhood I was attracted to Indigenous spirituality, which is discriminated\u00a0in a colonial and Christian society like the Ecuadorian (even within my own family). This is the meain reason why I chose to major in FNIS and also why I am doing a research on Indigenous Master\/Sacred plants and presenting on this site. Besides, Indigenous peoples from Ecuador have a long history of resistance, for example their influence for the inclusion of the Sumak Kawsay–which protects the rights of Mother Earth– in Ecuador’s 2008 Constitution, was a groundbreaking achievement in the modern history of Indigenous peoples. However, I think a setting like UBC’s gives opportunity to gain and exchange perspectives and knowledge. I find unsettling the way in which Indigenous knowledge coexists and interacts with a Western education environment there.<\/p>\n

For now, I am just studying, doing some extra activities, and thinking of how I could make a contribution to Indigenous peoples back home. I am exited to see what is waiting for me in the coming courses.<\/p>\n

Enjoy your visit!!!<\/em><\/h4>\n

Victor<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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