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{{Short description|Peruvian people of indigenous ancestry}}
{{Update|date=November 2024|reason=statistics are out of date}}
{{Infobox ethnic group|
| group            = Indigenous peoples of Peru
| native_name      = Pueblos indígenas del Perú
| native_name_lang = 
| image            = Cusco. Peru - Laslovarga (23).jpg
| caption          = Quechua people in the city of [[Cusco]], former capital of the [[Inca Empire]]
| popplace         = Mainly in southern regions and in the [[Peruvian Amazon]] ([[Apurimac Region|Apurímac]], [[Ayacucho Region|Ayacucho]], [[Huancavelica Region|Huancavelica]], [[Cusco Region|Cusco]], [[Puno Region|Puno]], [[Loreto Region|Loreto]], [[Junín Region|Junín]], [[Pasco Region|Pasco]], [[Huánuco Region|Huánuco]], [[Ucayali Region|Ucayali]], and [[Madre de Dios Region|Madre de Dios]]).
| population       = '''Amerindian ancestry predominates'''<br />'''5,972,606''' (2017 census)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.inei.gob.pe/media/MenuRecursivo/publicaciones_digitales/Est/Lib1539/libro.pdf|title=2017 Peruvian census}}</ref><br />25.75% of the Peruvian population
| langs            = [[Spanish language|Spanish]]{{*}}[[Indigenous languages of the Americas|Indigenous languages]] (including [[Southern Quechua|Quechua]], [[Aymara language|Aymara]], [[Asháninka language|Asháninka]], [[Aguaruna language|Aguaruna]])
| rels             = [[Catholic Church|Catholicism]]{{·}}[[Indigenous religion]]
| related          = [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas]]
}}

The '''Indigenous peoples of Peru''' or '''Indigenous Peruvians''' comprise a large number of [[ethnic group]]s who inhabit territory in present-day [[Peru]]. Indigenous cultures developed here for thousands of years before the arrival of the Spanish in 1532.

In 2017, 5,972,606  Peruvians identified themselves as indigenous peoples and formed about 25.75% of the [[Demographics of Peru|total population of Peru]].<ref name=inei/> At the time of the Spanish arrival, the indigenous peoples of the rain forest of the [[Amazon basin]] to the east of the Andes were mostly [[nomad|semi-nomadic]] tribes; they subsisted on hunting, fishing, gathering and [[slash and burn]] agriculture. Those peoples living in the Andes and to the west were dominated by the [[Inca Empire]], who had a complex, hierarchical civilization. It developed many cities, building major temples and monuments with techniques of highly skilled stonemasonry.

[[File:Indigenous mother and daughter from Peru.png|thumb|A Native Peruvian mother and daughter from the [[Uru people|Urus islands]].]]

Many of the estimated 2000 nations and tribes present in 1500 died out as a consequence of the [[Inca Empire#Expansion and consolidation|expansion and consolidation of the Inca Empire]] and its successor after 1533, the [[Spanish empire]]. In the 21st century, the mixed-race [[mestizo]]s are the largest component of the Peruvian population.

With the arrival of the Spanish, many Natives perished due to Eurasian [[infectious disease]]s among the foreigners, to which they had acquired no [[immunity (medical)|immunity]].

All of the Peruvian Indigenous groups, such as the [[Urarina people|Urarina]],<ref>Dean, Bartholomew. (2009) ''Urarina Society, Cosmology, and History in Peruvian Amazonia'', Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida {{ISBN|978-0-8130-3378-5}} [http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=DEANXS07]</ref> and even those who live isolated in the most remote areas of the [[Amazon rainforest]], such as the [[Matsés people|Matsés]], [[Matis]], and [[Korubo people|Korubo]], have changed their ways of life to some extent under the influence of European-Peruvian culture. They have adopted the use of [[firearm]]s and other manufactured items, and trade goods, although they remain separated from mainstream Peruvian society. Many Indigenous groups work to uphold traditional cultural practices and identities.

==Origins==
{{See also|Andean civilizations|Periodization of pre-Columbian Peru|Genetic history of Indigenous peoples of the Americas}}
[[File:Peru Huari Standing Dignitary 1 Kimbell.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Wari culture]] sculpture, c. [[600]]–[[AD 1000|1000]] CE, wood with shell-and-stone inlay and silver, [[Kimbell Art Museum]].]]

[[Anthropology|Anthropological]] and [[genetics|genetic]] evidence indicates that most of the original population of the Americas descended from migrants from [[North Asia]] ([[Siberia]]) who entered North America across the [[Bering Strait]] in at least three separate waves. DNA analysis has shown that most of those resident in Peru in 1500 were descended from the first wave of Asian migrants, who are theorized, but not proven conclusively, to have crossed [[Beringia]] at the end of the [[last glacial period]] during the [[Upper Paleolithic]], around 24,000 BCE. Migrants from that first wave are thought to have reached Peru in the [[10th millennium BC|10th millennium BCE]], probably entering the Amazon basin from the northwest.

The [[Norte Chico civilization]] of Peru is the oldest known civilization in the [[Americas]] and one of the [[cradle of civilization|six sites]] where civilization, including the development of agriculture and government, separately originated in the ancient [[world]]. The sites, located {{convert|100|miles}} north of [[Lima]], developed a trade between coastal fisherman and cotton growers and built monumental [[pyramid]]s around the [[30th century BC|30th century BCE]].<ref>Grossman, Ron (23 December 2004). [https://www.chicagotribune.com/2004/12/23/americas-cradle-of-civilization/ "Americas' cradle of civilization"]. ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''. Retrieved 9 October 2013.</ref>

During the [[pre-Columbian era]], the peoples who dominated the territory now known as Peru spoke languages, such as: [[Quechua languages|Quechua]], [[Aymara language|Aymara]], [[Jivaroan peoples|Jivaroan]], [[Tsimané people|Tsimané]], [[Tallán]], Culli, Quingnam, Muchik, and Puquina. The peoples had different social and organizational structures, and distinct languages and cultures.

==Demographics==
[[File:Ashaninka_Huanuco.jpg|thumb|[[Ashaninka]] children in a town in [[Department of Huánuco|Huánuco]].]]

According to the [[Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática|National Institute of Statistics and Informatics]], out of a 31,237,385 population, the Indigenous people in Peru represent about 25.7%. Of those, 95.8% are Andean and 3.3% from the Amazon.<ref name=inei>[https://www.inei.gob.pe/media/MenuRecursivo/publicaciones_digitales/Est/Lib1539/libro.pdf "Perú: Perfil Sociodemográfico"] ''Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática''. Retrieved 22 Sep 2018.</ref> Other sources indicate that the Indigenous people comprise 31% of the total population.<ref name="adveniat.de">{{in lang|es}} [http://www.adveniat.de/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF/prof-lerner-muenster.pdf / Conclusiones del presidente de la Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación (p.4)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233220/http://www.adveniat.de/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF/prof-lerner-muenster.pdf |date=2016-03-03 }}</ref><ref name="cverdad.org.pe">{{in lang|es}} [http://www.cverdad.org.pe/pagina01.php / Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación]</ref>

In the Amazonian region, there more than 65 ethnic groups classified into 16 language families.<ref name=TIW158>Wessendorf 158</ref> After [[Brazil]] in South America and [[New Guinea]] in Oceania, Peru is believed to have the highest number of [[Uncontacted people|uncontacted tribes]] in the world.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081007204234/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081006-uncontacted-tribes.html " 'Uncontacted' Tribes Fled Peru Logging, Arrows Suggest"], ''National Geographic News'', 6 Oct 2008.</ref> There are around 25 uncontacted indigenous groups in Peru.<ref>{{cite news |title=Two loggers shot dead with arrows in clash with Indigenous group in Peruvian Amazon |url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/sep/04/two-loggers-shot-dead-with-arrows-in-clash-with-indigenous-group-in-peruvian-amazon |work=The Guardian |date=4 September 2024}}</ref>

=== Indigenous population by department ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Rank !! Department !! Percentage !! Total population
|-
||  1 || [[File:Bandera_Región_Puno.svg|25px|border]] [[Department of Puno|Puno]] || 90.81% || 857,351
|-
||  2 || [[File:Bandera Región Apurimac.svg|25px|border]]  [[Department of Apurímac|Apurímac]] || 86.97% || 273,947
|-
||  3 || {{flag|Ayacucho}} || 81.48% || 388,476
|-
||  4 || {{flag|Huancavelica}} || 80.88% || 215,812
|-
||  5 || [[File:Flag_of_Cusco_(2021).svg|25px|border]] [[Department of Cusco|Cusco]] || 75.91% || 721,430
|-
||  6 || {{flag|Huanuco}} || 43.34% || 239,049
|-
||  7 || {{flag|Tacna}} || 40.32% || 108,469
|-
||  8 || {{flag|Pasco}} || 39.87% || 78,455
|-
||  9 || {{flag|Madre de Dios}} || 39.47% || 41,646
|-
|| 10 || {{flag|Moquegua}} || 36.71% || 52,205
|-
|| 11 || {{flag|Junin}} || 36.45% || 353,192
|-
|| 12 || [[File:Bandera_de_Arequipa.svg|25px|border]] [[Department of Arequipa|Arequipa]] || 34.74% || 388,476
|-
|| 13 || {{flag|Ancash}} || 34.15% || 290,420
|-
|| 14 || [[File:Lima_region_flag.svg|25px|border]] [[Department of Lima|Lima]] || 17.82% || 128,632
|-
|| 15 || [[File:Flag_of_Lima.svg|25px|border]] [[Lima province]] || 17.16% || 1,211,490
|-
|| 16 || {{flag|Ica}} || 14.77% || 97,863
|-
|| 17 || {{flag|Callao}} || 11.02% || 88,081
|-
|| 18 || {{flag|Loreto}} || 8.10% || 50,493
|-
|| 19 || {{flag|Ucayali}} || 7.06% || 25,181
|-
|| 20 || {{flag|Cajamarca}} || 6.47% || 66,473
|-
|| 21 || [[File:Bandera_Región_San_Martín.svg|25px|border]] [[Department of San Martín|San Martín]] || 5.85% || 35,613
|-
|| 22 || [[File:Amazonas bandera.svg|25px|border]] [[Amazonas (Peruvian department)|Amazonas]] || 5.04% || 14,182
|-
|| 23 || {{flag|Lambayeque}} || 4.77% || 44,613
|-
|| 24 || [[File:Bandera_de_La_Libertad_Peru.svg|25px|border]] [[Department of La Libertad|La Libertad]] || 3.19% || 43,960
|-
|| 25 || {{flag|Piura}} || 2.35% || 33,196
|-
|| 26 || {{flag|Tumbes}} || 2.10% || 3,594
|-
| colspan="8" style="text-align:left;" |<small>Source: Peruvian census 2017 <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.inei.gob.pe/media/MenuRecursivo/publicaciones_digitales/Est/Lib1539/libro.pdf|title=2017 Peruvian census}}</ref></small>
|}

==After the Spanish conquest==
{{See also|Spanish conquest of Peru}}
After the arrival of Spanish soldiers in Peru,<ref>[[Henry F. Dobyns|Dobyns, Henry F.]], ''Their Number Become Thinned: Native American Population Dynamics in Eastern North America'' (Native American Historic Demography Series), University of Tennessee Press, 1983</ref> local people began dying in great number from [[Eurasia]]n [[infection|infectious]] diseases that were chronic among the foreigners. These spread by contact across the New World by Indigenous peoples along trading routes, often years ahead of direct contact with the invaders. As the natives had no natural [[immune system|immunity]], they suffered high fatalities in epidemics of the new diseases.

==Marriage ==
[[File:Chucuito._Fiesta_popular,_Casamiento.jpg|thumb|[[Aymara people|Aymara]] marriage in [[Chucuito]], [[Department of Puno|Puno]].]]
Women typically got married around 16 years old while men typically married when they were 20 years old. Before the Spanish Inquisition, Incas often engaged in trial marriages. Trial marriages typically lasted a few years and at the end of the trial, both the man and the woman in the relationship could decide to either pursue the relationship or return home.<ref name=":14">{{Cite book |last=D'Altroy |first=Terence N. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46449340 |title=The Incas |date=2002 |publisher=Blackwell |isbn=0-631-17677-2 |location=Malden, Mass. |oclc=46449340}}</ref> According to Powers, “Andean peoples had clearly understood, long and before the ride of the Inca state, that women’s work and men’s work were complementary and interdependent, that the group’s economic subsistence could not be attained in the absence of one or the other.” <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Powers |first=Karen Vieira |date=2000 |title=Andeans and Spaniards in the Contact Zone: A Gendered Collision |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/aiq.2000.0025 |journal=The American Indian Quarterly |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=511–536 |doi=10.1353/aiq.2000.0025 |s2cid=161418762 |issn=1534-1828|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Once married, women often stayed home to watch over children and livestock, collect food, cook, weave, etc. On the other hand, men often took on more physically taxing responsibilities.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Guengerich |first=Sara Vicuña |date=2015-04-03 |title=''Capac''Women and the Politics of Marriage in Early Colonial Peru |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2015.1040275 |journal=Colonial Latin American Review |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=147–167 |doi=10.1080/10609164.2015.1040275 |s2cid=153334263 |issn=1060-9164|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Silverblatt |first=Irene |date=1978 |title=Andean Women in the Inca Empire |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3177537 |journal=Feminist Studies |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=37–61 |doi=10.2307/3177537 |jstor=3177537 |issn=0046-3663|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

=== Intermarriage ===
From the earliest years, Spanish soldiers and colonists intermarried with the Indigenous women. The Spanish officers and elite married into the Inca elite, and other matches were made among other classes. A sizeable portion of the Peruvian population is ''[[mestizo]]'', of Indigenous and European ancestry, speaking Spanish, generally Roman Catholic, and assimilated as the majority culture.

In the late 19th century, major planters in Peru, particularly in the northern plantations, and in Cuba, recruited thousands of mostly male Chinese immigrants as laborers, referred to as "[[coolies]]". Because of the demographics, in Peru these men married mostly non-Chinese women, many of them Indigenous Peruvians, during that period of a [[Chinese Peruvian|Chinese migration to Peru]].<ref name="meade">{{cite book|edition=illustrated|year=2011|access-date=May 17, 2014|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|volume=4 of Wiley Blackwell Concise History of the Modern World|author=Teresa A. Meade|author-link=Teresa Meade |title=A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b4oyihfIfh0C&q=chinese+guyana+marry+east+indian+women&pg=PT148|isbn=978-1444358117}}</ref> In the late 20th and 21st centuries, many scholars have studied these unions and the cultures their descendants created.<ref name="herrera143-144">{{cite book|pages=143–144|year=2010|access-date=May 17, 2014|publisher=BRILL|author=Isabelle Lausent-Herrera|editor1=Walton Look Lai|editor2=Chee Beng Tan|title=The Chinese in Latin America and the Caribbean|series=Brill ebook titles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xrGShVU6VrgC&pg=PA143|isbn=978-9004182134}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|page=47|edition=illustrated|year=2001|access-date=May 17, 2014|publisher=University of Chicago Press|author=Adam McKeown|author-link=Adam McKeown|title=Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, and Hawaii 1900-1936|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vix_3doZkH0C&q=chinese+peru+women&pg=PA47|isbn=978-0226560250}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|page=[https://archive.org/details/orientalsasianam0000leer/page/75 75]|year=1999|access-date=May 17, 2014|publisher=Temple University Press|author=Robert G. Lee|title=Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture|url=https://archive.org/details/orientalsasianam0000leer|url-access=registration|quote=chinese peruvian women.|isbn=978-1439905715}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|page=47|edition=illustrated|year=2004|access-date=May 17, 2014|publisher=Hong Kong University Press|author=Chee-Beng Tan|title=Chinese Overseas: Comparative Cultural Issues|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ca7UAQAAQBAJ&q=chinese+peruvian+women&pg=PA47|isbn=978-9622096615}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|page=181|year=2002|access-date=May 17, 2014|publisher=Temple University Press|author1=Josephine D. Lee|author2=Imogene L. Lim|author3=Yuko Matsukawa|title=Re/collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fjeAaEqo-CEC&q=chinese+peruvian+women&pg=PA181|isbn=978-1439901205}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|page=8|edition=illustrated|year=1998|access-date=May 17, 2014|publisher=Press, University of the West Indies|author=Walton Look Lai|others=Walton Look Lai|title=The Chinese in the West Indies, 1806-1995: A Documentary History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fMrit6tcO_AC&q=walton+look+lai+caribbean+chinese+indian+women&pg=PA8|isbn=978-9766400217}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|year=2014|access-date=May 17, 2014|publisher=University of Texas Press|author=Michael J. Gonzales|title=Plantation Agriculture and Social Control in Northern Peru, 1875–1933|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oKt0BQAAQBAJ&q=Ofthe+hundreds+of+thousandsof+Chinese+who+emigrated+to+the+New+World%2C+onlyahandful+were+women.+Of+the+100%2C000+Chinese+who+came+toPeru%2C+for+example%2C+only+15+were+women%2C+and+in+Cuba%2C+the+census+of+1872lists+only+32+Chinese+women+...&pg=PT139|isbn=978-1477306024}}</ref>

The Chinese also had contact with Peruvian women in cities, where they formed relationships and sired mixed-race children. Typically the Indigenous women had come from Andean and coastal areas to work in the cities. Chinese men favored marriage with them over unions with African Peruvian women. Matchmakers sometimes arranged for mass communal marriages among a group of young Peruvian women and a new group of Chinese coolies. They were paid a deposit to recruit women from the Andean villages for such marriages.<ref name="herrera143-144"/>

In 1873 the ''[[New York Times]]'' reported on the Chinese coolies in Peru, describing their indentured labor as akin to slavery. It also reported that Peruvian women sought Chinese men as husbands, considering them to be a "catch" and a "model husband, hard-working, affectionate, faithful and obedient" and "handy to have in the house".<ref>{{cite news |date = 28 June 1873|title = The Coolie Trade.; The Slavery of the Present. The Traffic of Peru Hiring of the Coo-lie Horrors of the Middle Passage the Coolie's Fate.|url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1873/07/19/79039587.pdf|newspaper = [[The New York Times]]|location = Callao, Peru|access-date = 28 Jul 2015}}</ref>

As is typical in times of demographic change, some Peruvians objected to such marriages on racial grounds.<ref name="herrera145-146">{{cite book|pages=145–146|year=2010|access-date=May 17, 2014|publisher=Brill|author=Isabelle Lausent-Herrera|editor1=Walton Look Lai|editor2=Chee Beng Tan|title=The Chinese in Latin America and the Caribbean|series=Brill ebook titles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xrGShVU6VrgC&pg=PA145|isbn=978-9004182134}}</ref> When native Peruvian women (cholas et natives, Indias, indígenas) and Chinese men had mixed children, the children were called ''injerto''. As adults, injerto women were preferred by Chinese men as spouses, as they had shared ancestry.<ref name="herrera145-146"/>

According to Alfredo Sachettí, lower-class Peruvians, including some black and Amerindian women, established sexual unions or marriages with the Chinese men. In Casa Grande highland Amerindian women and Chinese men participated in communal "mass marriages", taking place after a Chinese matchmaker collected groups of highland women and transported them to the marriage site to marry Chinese men.<ref>{{cite book|page=100|year=1985|access-date=May 17, 2014|publisher=University of Texas Press|issue=Issue 62 of Latin American Monographs, No 62, Issue 62 of Institute of Latin American Studies|volume=62 of Texas Pan American Series|author=Michael J. Gonzales|title=Plantation Agriculture and Social Control in Northern Peru, 1875-1933|series=Brill ebook titles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I6-zAAAAIAAJ&q=when+recruits+arrived+placed+room+grooms+lined+up+opposite+highland+women+faces+each+directly+opposite+woman+contractor+claps+hand+signal+turn+around+man+wife+permits|isbn=978-0292764910}}</ref>

== Education and language ==
[[File:Qichwa conchucos 01.jpg|thumb|[[Quechua people]] in [[Conchucos District]], [[Department of Ancash|Ancash]].]]
Significant test score gaps exist between Indigenous students and non-Indigenous students in elementary schools.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Quality of Schooling and Quality of Schools for Indigenous Students in Guatemala, Mexico and Peru|last1=Hernandez-Zavala|first1=Martha|last2=Patrinos|first2=Harry Anthony|last3=Sakellariou|first3=Chris|last4=Shapiro|first4=Joseph|year=2006|doi=10.1596/1813-9450-3982|series = Policy Research Working Papers|publisher=The World Bank|hdl=10986/8357|s2cid=153570632|url=http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2006/08/01/000016406_20060801115754/Rendered/PDF/wps3982.pdf}}</ref> In addition, Peru has over 60 distinct [[Amerindian]] linguistic groups, speaking languages beyond Spanish and the Incan [[Quechua people|Quechua]], not all of which are recognized.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L3J3vNTOzWAC&q=indigenous+education+in+peru&pg=PA206|title=Beyond Bilingualism: Multilingualism and Multilingual Education|last1=Cenoz|first1=Jasone|last2=Genesee|first2=Fred|date=1998-01-01|publisher=Multilingual Matters|isbn=9781853594205|language=en}}</ref> Indigenous groups, and therefore language barriers to education, remain a problem primarily in the sierra (Andean highlands) and the selva (Amazon jungle) regions of Peru, less in the cities of the costa (coast).<ref name=":11">{{Cite journal|last=Freeland|first=Jane|date=1996|title=The Global, the National and the Local: forces in the development of education for indigenous peoples -- the case of Peru|journal=Compare|volume=26|issue=2|pages=167–195|doi=10.1080/0305792960260204}}</ref> Throughout the second half of the 20th century, steps have been made to target and strengthen Indigenous communities' education, starting with the introduction of bilingual education throughout the country, promoting teaching in both Spanish and [[Quechuan languages|Quechua]] or other Indigenous languages.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sK2TAgAAQBAJ&q=indigenous+education+in+peru&pg=PA276|title=The Routledge International Companion to Multicultural Education|last=Banks|first=James A.|date=2009-09-10|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135897284|language=en}}</ref> Quechua was made an official language of Peru in 1975, and while it was later qualified to specific regions of the country and for specific purposes, it is still recognized as equal to Spanish in some regions.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />

Activists promoting intercultural [[bilingual education]] view it as being the solution for a more "equitable, diverse, and respectful society", garnering social economic, political, and cultural rights for Indigenous groups while simultaneously encouraging "Indigenous autonomy and cultural pride".<ref name=":2" /> Criticisms of bilingual education have been raised, in some cases most strongly by Quechua-speaking highlanders themselves, strongly opposing intercultural efforts. These Indigenous highlanders view intercultural efforts as an imposition of "disadvantageous educational changes" blocking their economic and social advancement, historically seen as only possible through learning to read and write Spanish.<ref name=":12">{{Cite journal|last=García|first=María Elena|date=2003|title=The Politics of Community: Education, Indigenous Rights, and Ethnic Mobilization in Peru|jstor=3184966|journal=Latin American Perspectives|volume=30|issue=1|pages=70–95|doi=10.1177/0094582X02239145|s2cid=143662962}}</ref> While the legislation has been one of the most forward in [[Latin America]] concerning Indigenous education,<ref name=":11" /> the implementation of these educational programs has been technically challenging, with teachers agreeing in theory but finding it impossible in practice to bring an intercultural mindset and facilitate bilingualism, particularly with often very limited resources.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":12" /> However, in contrast, studies by Nancy Hornberger and others have shown that the use of children's native language in schools did allow for far greater "oral and written pupil participation - in absolute, linguistic, and sociolinguistic terms".<ref name=":13">{{Cite journal|last=Hornberger|first=Nancy|date=2006|title=Voice and Biliteracy in Indigenous Language Revitalization: Contentious Educational Practices in Quechua, Guarani, and Māori Contexts|journal= Journal of Language, Identity & Education|volume=5|issue=4|pages=277–292|doi=10.1207/s15327701jlie0504_2|s2cid=144568468|url=https://repository.upenn.edu/gse_pubs/150}}</ref>

With a lack of political will and economic force to push a nationally unified bilingual education program, many disconnected efforts have been put forth.<ref name=":11" /> The National Division of Intercultural Bilingual Education (DINEBI) was started, among other efforts, and worked to further incorporate bilingual and intercultural education. The Program for the Training of Native Bilingual Teachers (FORMABIAP) is another example of intercultural education efforts, focusing particularly on the [[Amazon Basin|Amazon]] regions of Peru.<ref name=":2" />

==Territories==
Indigenous people hold title to substantial portions of Peru, primarily in the form of ''communal reserves'' ({{langx|es|reservas comunales}}). The largest Indigenous communal reserve in Peru belongs to the Matsés people and is located on the Peruvian border with Brazil on the [[Javary River]].

==Laws and institutions==
In 1994, Peru signed and ratified the current international law concerning Indigenous people, the [[Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/ratifce.pl?C169|archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20091225170052/http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/ratifce.pl?C169|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-12-25|title=ILOLEX: submits English query|website=arquivo.pt|access-date=2018-11-19}}</ref> The convention rules the following: governments are responsible for ensuring that Indigenous peoples possess equal rights and opportunities under national law, for upholding the integrity of cultural and social identity under these rights, and for working toward elimination of existing socio-economic gaps between Indigenous peoples and the rest of the respective national community.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=NORMLEXPUB:12100:0::NO::P12100_ILO_CODE:C169|title=Convention C169 - Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169)|website=www.ilo.org|language=en|access-date=2018-11-19}}</ref> To ensure these aims, the convention additionally mandates that governments are to consult communities through their representative institutions regarding any legislature that openly affects their communities, provide modes through which Indigenous peoples can participate in policy decision-making to the same extent as other divisions of the national community, and allocate support, resources, and any other necessary means to these communities for the complete development of their own institutions.<ref name=":1" /> The extent to which Peru upholds this legislation is debated, especially in regards to use of Indigenous territories for capital gain.<ref name="TIW159">Wessendorf 159</ref> Additionally, implementation of legislature has been protracted, with Indigenous peoples only gaining the legal right to consultation as late as 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/law/foreign-news/article/peru-new-law-granting-right-of-consultation-to-indigenous-peoples/|title=Peru: New Law Granting Right of Consultation to Indigenous Peoples {{!}} Global Legal Monitor|date=2011-09-27|website=www.loc.gov|language=en|others=Rodriguez-Ferrand, Graciela|access-date=2018-11-19}}</ref>

==Political organizations==
Among the more informal organizations in Indigenous communities is the tradition of [[Ronda Campesina|Rondas Campesinas]]. Under General [[Juan Velasco Alvarado]]’s dictatorial military regime, lasting from 1968 to 1975, the government took on a pro-Andean and pro-Indigenous, nationalist-oriented agenda.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Latin American Politics and Development|last1=Kline|first1=Harvey F.|last2=Wade|first2=Christine J.|last3=Wiarda|first3=Howard J.|publisher=Westview Press|year=2017|isbn=978-0-8133-5050-9|location=Boulder, CO|pages=197}}</ref> This regime broke up Peru's traditional [[Hacienda]] system and installed a system of land management based largely around state-run farm cooperatives; however, due to weak state presence beyond coastal regions, the Indigenous peasantry organized local civil defense patrols known as [[Ronda Campesina|Rondas Campesinas]] to guard against land invasions.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.refworld.org/docid/4954ce0b2.html|title=Refworld {{!}} World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - Peru|last=Refugees|first=United Nations High Commissioner for|work=Refworld|access-date=2018-11-19|language=en}}</ref> Although their relationship to the government was traditionally ambiguous, they gained more official authority from the government when they rose as an opposing force to the [[Shining Path]] guerrilla movement.<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal|last=Fumerton|first=Mario|date=2001|title=Rondas Campesinas in the Peruvian Civil War: Peasant Self-Defence Organisations in Ayacucho|journal=Bulletin of Latin American Research|volume=20|issue=4|pages=470–497|jstor=3339025|doi=10.1111/1470-9856.00026}}</ref> Rondas Campesinas still function as a form of political organization among communities northern Peru, however their role has largely decreased, as has their legal formality.<ref name=":4" />

The late 2010s have seen a push for autonomous regional governments for Indigenous communities.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Indigenous World 2018|last=Jacquelin-Andersen|first=Pamela|publisher=INTERNATIONAL WORK GROUP FOR INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS|year=2018|isbn=978-87-92786-85-2|pages=171}}</ref> The Autonomous Territorial Government of the Wampis Nation (GTANW) of the Peruvian Amazon was the first to be established.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=https://www.iwgia.org/en/peru/3265-wampis-nation-peru|title=The Wampis Nation - the first indigenous autonomous government in Peru|last=Heckmann|first=Bue|website=www.iwgia.org|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-11-19}}</ref> Other communities followed, including the Kandozi, Shawi, and Shapra peoples, and additional communities are expressing interest in pursuing autonomous governments.<ref name=":5" /> The primary function of these governments is to both protect autonomous territories from resource extraction by foreign entities as well as enhance dialogue between the Peruvian state and Indigenous communities through fortified institutions. The Autonomous Territorial Government of the Wampis Nation, established officially in November 2015, has since started operating an autonomous radio broadcaster to service the communities of the Santiago River basin, where the new government is also taking on issues of illegal mining in the area.<ref name=":5" />

Beyond organizations based in regional autonomy, other notable organizations exist for the purpose of establishing Indigenous representation of interests in Peruvian politics. This includes organizations such [[AIDESEP]], the Asociacion Inter-etnica para el Desarollo de la Selva Peruana (Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Jungle), which defends the collective rights of Indigenous peoples in the Peruvian Amazon.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=http://www.aidesep.org.pe/index.php/quienes-somos-interno|title=AIDESEP|website=www.aidesep.org.pe|language=es|access-date=2018-11-19}}</ref> [[AIDESEP]] represents 64 Indigenous groups in total.<ref name=":6" /> Also based out of the Amazon River Basin is the organization MATSES (Movement in the Amazon for Tribal Subsistence and Economic Sustainability). Unlike the coalition-style organization of AIDESEP, MATSES is a nonprofit organization run specifically by members of the [[Matsés]] community; the central aim of this organization is to build the proper institutions to preserve both [[Matsés]] culture and lands without influence from external sources of funding or leadership.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.matses.org/|title=The Matses Movement|website=www.matses.org|language=en|access-date=2018-11-19}}</ref>

==Ethnic groups==
[[File:Native American in Cusco - Peru.jpg|thumb|Native American in Cusco - Peru]]
[[File:Quechua woman spinning and her children Peru.jpg|thumb|Quechua woman with children in Peru]]
[[File:Spix Reiseatlas original 34-Saibo.jpg|thumb|The [[Matsés people|Matsés]] living in the [[Amazon rainforest]] made their first permanent contact with the outside world in 1969]]
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* [[Achuar people|Achuar]], Amazon
* [[Aguano people|Aguano]], Amazon
* [[Aguaruna people|Aguaruna]], Amazon, northern Peru
* [[Amahuaca people|Amahuaca]], Amazon, eastern Peru
* [[Asháninka people|Asháninka]], Amazon: [[Junín Region|Junín]], [[Pasco Region|Pasco]], [[Huánuco Region|Huánuco]], and [[Ucayali Region]]a
* [[Aymara people|Aymara]], who live primarily in the south.<ref name=TIW158/>
* [[Bora people|Bora]], Amazon, north and eastern Peru
* [[Candoshi people|Candoshi]], Amazon: [[Loreto Region]]
* [[Cashibo people|Cashibo]], Amazon
* [[Chanka culture|Chanka]], whose direct descendants live primarily in [[Apurimac Region|Apurímac]], [[Ayacucho Region|Ayacucho]] and [[Lamas, Peru|Lamas]].
* [[Chincha people|Chincha]], formerly the Pacific Coast
* [[Cholones]], Amazon
* [[Kokama people|Cocama]]
* [[Cocamilla]]
* [[Ese Ejja people|Ese Ejja]], Amazon: [[Madre de Dios Region]]
* [[Harakmbut people|Harakmbut]], Amazon: [[Madre de Dios Region]]
* [[Huambisa people|Huambisa]], Amazon
* [[Jibito people|Jibito]], Amazon
* [[Jivaroan peoples|Jivaro]], Amazon, northern Peru
:* [[Shuar people|Shuar]], Amazon
* [[Kaxinawá people|Kaxinawá]], Amazon
* [[Kulina people|Kulina]], Amazon
* [[Korubo people|Korubo]]
* [[Machiguenga people|Machiguenga]], Amazon, southeastern Peru
* [[Machinere people|Machinere]], Amazon
* [[Maina Indians|Maina]], Amazon
* [[Mashco-Piro]], Amazon: [[Madre de Dios Region]]
* [[Matsés people|Matsés]] ([[Mayoruna]]), Amazon
* [[Muinane]]
* [[Norte Chico civilization]] (9210–1800 BCE), Pacific coast
* [[Pocra culture]] (500–1000 CE), Pacific coast
* Ocaína
* [[Q'ero]], Andes: [[Cusco Region]]
* [[Quechua people|Quechua]], direct descendants of the common people from the [[Inca Empire]], who are the majority in the coastal and Andean regions.<ref name=TIW158/>
:* [[Quijos-Quichua]], lowland Quechua of the [[Napo River|Napo]] river. Amazon: [[Loreto Region]]
:* [[Canelos-Quichua]], lowland Quechua of the [[Tigre River|Tigre]] and [[Corrientes River|Corrientes]] rivers. Amazon: [[Loreto Region]]
:* [[Southern Pastaza Quechua]], lowland Quechua primarily living south of [[Andoas]] in the [[Pastaza River]] basin. Amazon: [[Loreto Region]]
:* [[Kichwa-Lamista people|Kichwa-Lamista]], lowland Quechua living along the [[Huallaga River|Huallaga]] and [[Mayo River (Peru)|Mayo]] rivers. Amazon: [[San Martín Region]]
* [[Secoya people|Secoya]], Amazon, northern Peru
* Shapra, Amazon: [[Loreto Region]]
* [[Shipibo-Conibo people|Shipibo-Conibo]], Amazon: eastern Peru
* [[Ticuna people|Ticuna]], Amazon
* [[Tukano people|Tukano]]
* [[Urarina people|Urarina]], Amazon: [[Loreto Region]]
* [[Uru people|Uru]], Andes: [[Lake Titicaca]]
* [[Huanca people|Huanca]], Andes: [[Junín Region]]
* [[Witoto people|Witoto]] ([[Huitoto]]), Amazon, northern Peru
* [[Yagua people|Yagua]], Amazon: northeastern Peru
* [[Yaminawá people|Yaminawá]], Amazon: [[Madre de Dios Region]]
* [[Yanesha people|Yanesha']], Amazon: [[Huánuco Region|Huánuco]], [[Junín Region|Junín]], and [[Pasco Region]]s
* [[Yine people|Yine]], Amazon: [[Cusco Region|Cusco]], [[Loreto Region|Loreto]], and [[Ucayali Region]]s
* Yukunas
* [[Zaparo people|Zaparo]], Amazon, northern Peru
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==See also==
{{Portal|Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Peru}}
* [[Cerro de la Sal]] (Salt Mountain)
* [[Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest]]
* [[Indigenous peoples in South America]]

==References==
===Citations===
{{Reflist}}

===Bibliography===
* {{Cite book|title=The Indigenous World 2008 |author=Kathrin Wessendorf |year=2008 |publisher=International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs |location=Copenhagen, Denmark |isbn=978-87-91563-44-7 |url=http://www.iwgia.org/graphics/Synkron-Library/Documents/publications/Downloadpublications/IndigenousWorld/IW%202008/THE%20INDIGENOUS%20WORLD-2008.pdf |access-date=May 22, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100903013456/http://www.iwgia.org/graphics/Synkron-Library/Documents/publications/Downloadpublications/IndigenousWorld/IW%202008/THE%20INDIGENOUS%20WORLD-2008.pdf |archive-date=September 3, 2010 }}
* ''Ideologia mesianico del mundo andino'', [[Juan Ossio Acuña|Juan M. Ossio Acuña]], Edicion de Ignacio Prado Pastor

==External links==
* [http://www.camino-inca.info Camino Inca: Inca Trail to Machu Picchu]
* [http://www.camino-inca.net  Camino Inca: Camino Inca a Machu Picchu]

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