How I Made It: Kichwa Hatari

Latino USA

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🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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In this segment of our “How I Made It” series, Charlie Uruchima shares his journey with his ancestral language and tells us how he created "Kichwa Hatari," the first Kichwa-language radio station in the U.S. From a bedroom-turned-radio studio, to building an entire community of radio hosts and language activists, Charlie tells us how he discovered the power of radio to build solidarity that defies borders.

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1:03.5	This is one of our how I made it segments from last summer that we want to share with you
1:07.1	again.
1:08.3	I think anytime you have indigenous peoples, particularly from Latin America and any space,
1:13.6	we tend to be invisibleized, rendered as Latinos or espanos, rather than acknowledge
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1:27.4	I'm Mariano Hosa.
1:28.8	Today, how I made it with Charlie Uruchima, host and co-founder of Kichwa Hatari.
1:42.4	For Charlie Uruchima, Kichwa is more than just a language.
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