Re-thinking Who We Are Through A Decolonizing Lense | Sisa Quispe | TEDxUnionTownshipWomen 

Thank you so much for the opportunity! I hope this message can help somebody, sending much love to you all.

As a Peruvian, who was raised in the US--I love her viewpoint. My mother speaks Quechua because she is from Huancavelica. my dad is limeño but his mother was an indigenous woman who did not know who to read or write, my grandfather signed for her (her excuse was that she couldn’t see). I always wondered on my last name, it was rare to find in the US. turns out my last name comes from Sucre, Selendin, Cajamarca. I dream of the day I get to go to that town. I think it’s beautiful to recognize your roots. I hope more Peruvians reclaim their indigenous identity and don’t forget their Quechua roots, because if you are Peruvian, even if Limeño and “blanquito” you are Serrano de sangre- and you should love it. I stand with her. I’m proud of my mestizo traits.

This meant so much to me! I was told to get a nose job as a young girl; moving away from colonized thinking made a difference in my life. Gracias hermana for sharing your insights and journey.

Beautiful talk sistar! I am super proud of you! Mestizaje and language repression are key factors in attacking our communities for the social/racial theories of blanqueamiento social that continues to this day! We are waking and breaking free from colonial identities and perspectives!

I’m proud of my Mexican indigenous and Apache roots. I’m 50% indigenous and I’m learning my indigenous ways and finding my native heritage. I was also reclaiming my tribe and people.

Thank you !!! ⭐️ May these words move us all through decolonizing, love for one another ❤

Great talk and your very beautiful. I began decolonization one I visited Japan 12 years ago. Now I'm a history buff on my Mesoamerican culture. Colonization brought a lot of misery to Indigenous people and were still paying the price.

Siempre sentí mucho orgullo por mi apellido mochica: Puycan. Es así como me hago llamar porque me representa al 100%. Yo siento que al usarlo refleja realmente como me identifico, o sea una persona no binario e indígena. Espero que muchas más personas encuentren su propio camino para lograr descolonizar tantos pensamientos que se nos enseñaron desde bebés. Gracias, Sisa Quispe.

I loved your talk. I hope, many people will see, and, hear your words…👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Wow Sisa! I loved your presentation, as an Indigenous person from Texas and Mexico it spoke to me personally. In fact, I have been writing about a similar idea and concept around nature and our place in it.

Great Job, Sisa!!! ✊🏽

Soooo gooood!! I learned so much from this talk!! 👏🏻😍

reina!!! orgullosa de ti

Aaah amazing speech, Sisa! So perfectly presented. It is very engaging and informative, buddy!

Thank you for telling this essential story we must embrace for our common human future ❤

Much love from your Indigenous Podcast Family, sister! Glad to see the frameworks in which we view ourselves and the world being challenged. Onward towards a prosperous future.

Thank you for this important truth and message. Colonialism 😢

Sisa!!! 🔥🔥🔥

This is the first time that I met such a empowered peruvian Young woman, who represents me.

Future leader

Decolonize our mind ✊😔

Thank you sister!

Nice and beautiful. Gracias.

🙌 Thank you for such an honest and AMAZING speech.

Simply: AMAZING ❤

...de colonizing to me means to look at the history of this country from West to east as opposed to vice versa....it also means recognizing the fact that when it comes to history there are 2 parallel narratives with the current ' western ' model being highly subjective

Ignoring your ancestors is a form of spiritual bypassing , because our current birth with its culture is our current doorway to enlightenment,we don’t take birth in a culture by mistake , the bodies we take with its happinesses and distresses are part of our journey towards soul consciousness. Our particular culture with its attributes are the lessons we need to tread

Thank you for a wonderful talk.

This really spoke to me. I relate so much. Thank you.

This is a powerful testimonial.

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Decolonization feels like, tarring down the worlds borders. Deprogramming the mind. Shutting of the internal dialog. And realizing the greater porpoise of life and reality that exist in infinity. The levels and realms or other worlds that exist hidden within our own, that awareness can be experience in the infinite sea of awareness. Being alive. 👁️ & Ofcourse native values and traditions.

This is beautiful

Most of the Population in Mexico Are Native Americans Descendents, From a 100% Blooded To 25% Blooded, In My Case I Carry On my System 55% Native American Blood, 8% African, 6% Caucasian, 15% Iberian, Atte. M.C.

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_Sisa was born and raised in Peru and is currently located in Lenape and Siwanoy occupied land_ Frankly, I am embarrassed for people who think these land acknowledgements give them some type of moral standing. They are based upon the lie that a given territory was taken by the Europeans colonizers from tribes that had been the original settlers of the land. In point of fact, this is pretty much never true. Just as in Europe there is a history of tribes migrating and conquering and colonizing different regions, so too was it in North and South America. All we know is that the Lenape were in the area when the Dutch arrived, but how long had they been there? A hundred years? Fifty? Five hundred? We don't have an accurate picture, but I know one thing: the Lenape and Siwanoy did not migrate across Beringia 10-15,000 years ago and directly settle in the Hudson River Valley. They almost certainly came in to land occupied by a tribe that had been there earlier and pushed them out. In some places we actually know the tribes that were displaced, but that doesn't stop people who are doing land acknowledgements from "acknowledging" that they are on land stolen by the Europeans, completely ignoring the fact that someone else stole it first. This is just pretentious hand wringing about a practice (colonizing and occupying) that has happened all over the world throughout history.

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Must Fight for ancestor land like we are in West Papua

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Someone tell her that Polleras are European clothing made famous in Peru during the 1500's. And the Inca are NOT extinct, they are still alive and well in the Cusco region of Peru. The rest of Peru, 95% of us are descendant from other native peoples and or mixed with Europeans and to a lesser extend Chinese, Japanese and Africans. Peru was created from a coalition of peoples conquered by the Inca who revolted with the aid of the Spanish, to push back and obtain freedom from the Inca empire, who were as brutal as any empire in History is.

We need to acknowledge all human beings, deserving of respect and equal treatment. Still today we are the only group of people not allowed to exist in the western hemisphere, still not getting respect or equal treatment until our Nations are allowed to exist. Landback is the only way to heal the genocide through sovereignty. People will try and mislabel our landback movement as "recognition" with symbolism sans justice. But it's time for our indigenous women to be leaders in this world, time for those like you to undo the harm of colonizers.

The colonists are still responsible for the horrible lives that the colonized live today. It will take hundreds of years till this changes.

Tan contento de que sus ideales no sean frecuentes en hispano America

Ah the colonization thing again...

Entenderia lo que dice si hablara en español, no todos saben ingles.

Sisa is fl0wer??

Embracing ones ancestry and culture is beautiful but I don't need to blame "white supremecy" or "colonialism" to celebrate my native roots

She’s cute

Mestizos in reality are the mixture of Moors and indigenous. In South America there are Arabs not Spaniards. Just look at Maduro, Celaya, etc

I’ll decolonize for her

she migrated to the US. She became an American and US citizen. she should also identify as an American/US citizen 🇺🇸

Haha not this chick again. The one that says there are no pure natives left. Another disciple of Indigenous podcast and lakota guy. Sad.

We indigenous people are not victims, I hate when people talk in this way.

hey Pocahontas, looking good

I can't believe such nonsense gets to Ted. Fortunately, we don't take such people seriously here in Latin America.

Re colonise the ooga boogas of academia. Put them to work.