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On August 24-26, 2018, more than 60 Indigenous community members and experts gathered to discuss climate change, traditional knowledge, and food sovereignty in Ixtlán de Juárez, Oaxaca, Mexico, at a convening organized by Cultural Survival and the International Indian Treaty Council, "Respecting Our Traditional Science and Ways of Knowing: Indigenous Peoples’ Sovereignty, Lifeways, and Climate Change.” 

By Nati Garcia

After a week of intense travel in Ecuador from the south of Guayaquil to the north of Imbabura, we finally made it to Cotacachi located in the “hoya” of Ibarra on the divine slopes of Cotacachi stratovolcano in the eastern part of the Andes. Only 20 minutes from Otavalo, Cotacachi has a completely different atmosphere, full of art, music, and peace.Here people have maintained their native language, Kichwa, which in other areas of Ecuador is being forgotten.

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