Indigenous Women's Day: Vindicated in Revolution

Every September 5, the International Day of Indigenous Women is commemorated to pay tribute to all women belonging to the world's original peoples and to make their heroic deeds visible.

The date is a tribute to Bartolina Sisa, murdered on September 5, 1782, who was dedicated to fabrics and was a spinner. She married the leader Túpac Katari and together with him she organized the indigenous resistance of the Andean peoples against the Spanish yoke in Cuzco, Peru. She died dismembered by royalist forces during the anti-colonial rebellion of Túpac Katari in Upper Peru.

Since 1983, indigenous people from different countries have been commemorating this date with the honor that women who carry the cultural and ancestral heritage of these communities deserve, as well as those who died in the fight against discrimination and abuses committed against this gender and ethnicity during history.

In Venezuela, with the arrival of the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chávez Frías, indigenous peoples enjoy special protection and have greater access to social policies.

The Government has developed community training plans for indigenous people, as well as bilingual intercultural education and traditional, ancestral and artisanal knowledge to consolidate their identity and cultural sovereignty. It has also passed several laws for the protection of indigenous peoples.

Mazo News Team