This art brought Kichwa traders to travel around the world.

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Kichwa people are Ecuadorian skilled artisans and producers of textiles that have kept alive the handicraft traditions of the mindalas, an ancient indigenous elite specialized in the art of trade.

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In the documentary Kichwa migrants tell their own story: the history of a people that, over the past forty years, became the protagonist of one of the most important migration flows in Ecuador.

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In this context, APAK - the only indigenous Kichwa association in Ecuador that produces audio-visual media content - seeks to systematize and promote the cultural traditions of Kichwa people in order to strengthen and revitalise the Kichwa cultural identity using ICTs and audio-visual means.

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Forced to move from a remote corner of the Ecuadorian Amazon to Sweden four years ago amid death threats following her community's opposition to the planned oil project, Nina Siren has been part of the fight to preserve the way of life of the indigenous Kichwa people of Sarayaku since she was 7 or 8 years old.

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