Ixcanul
What is the name of the young women at the center of Ixcanul.
Who is Maria?
This is the original Aymara title of Eternity.
What is Wiñaypacha?
Uchpa is a band from this country.
What is Peru?
Supaman performs this song?
What is "Why."
The ability of Indigenous communities to determine their own political, cultural, and social futures.
What is self-determination?
This is the meaning of the title of Ixcanul.
What is volcano?
The elderly couple is waiting for this person to return.
Who is their son?
Uchpa combines this Western musical genre with Andean musical traditions.
What is rock/hard rock?
“Why?” combines this contemporary musical form with Native cultural performance.
What are hip-hop/rap and Native dance/music?
Both films show Indigenous characters dealing with pressures created by separation from or unequal access to these larger institutions.
What are modern/state/economic institutions?
Maria's parents arrange for her to marry this man.
Who is Ignacio?
These are the two elderly protagonists.
Who are Willka and Phaxsi?
Performing in this language is one way Uchpa foregrounds Andean identity.
What is Quechua?
Supaman belongs to this Indigenous nation.
What is the Apsáalooke/Crow Nation?
A representation created by Indigenous people about Indigenous people.
What is self-representation?
Maria belongs to this Indigenous group.
Who are the Kaqchikel Maya?
This is the Indigenous language spoken throughout the film.
What is Aymara?
Uchpa's music demonstrates that Indigenous identity does not require rejecting this.
What is modern/global culture?
YouTube allows Supaman to reach audiences beyond this immediate community.
What is the local reservation/community?
This instrument represents the influence of modern Western rock music in Danzaq.
What is the electric guitar?
This language is central to the film and creates major communication problems when María's family enters the outside world.
What is Kaqchikel?
The film is particularly concerned with the consequences of this phenomenon affecting the elderly couple.
What is abandonment/generational separation?
This concept describes the mixing of Indigenous Andean traditions with modern/global cultural forms seen in Uchpa's music.
What is cultural hybridity?
YouTube allows Supaman to reach audiences beyond this immediate community.
What is the local reservation/community?
Both films make the natural environment more than just scenery by connecting it to Indigenous life and meaning.
What is culture/ spirituality.