A Quechua Prayer
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- National Museum of the American Indian
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- 14,194
- Video Title
- A Quechua Prayer
- Description
- Produced for the exhibition "The Great Inka Road: Engineering an Empire" (http://americanindian.si.edu/inkaroad/), on view at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., through June 1, 2018. Demetrio Roca Wallparimachi offers a traditional prayer in Quechua, his native language. Before reciting the prayer, he explained: "In 1925, when I was eight years old, my mother took me from my native land of Anta to Cusco. . . . During my journey, my mother showed me the sacred spring used for purification before entering Cusco. My mother asked me to remove my shoes, wash my feet, hands, and face, say a prayer. . . . Cusco is a sacred city, still powerful today.”
- Video Duration
- 2 min 46 sec
- YouTube Keywords
- Native American Indian Museum Smithsonian "Indigenous Peoples" "Smithsonian Institution" "Smithsonian NMAI" "National Museum of the American Indian"
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- 2015-06-26T13:14:34.000Z
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- YouTube Videos
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- National Museum of the American Indian
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- SmithsonianNMAI
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- Education
- Topic
- Native Americans;American Indians
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- yt_PQJ3u_WRgVo
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