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What Is the History of the National Indigenous Movement in Ecuador?

The history of ecuador's indigenous movement is also key here in terms of understanding how the indigenous movement makes this turn under cuarea from radical resource nationalism to anti extractism. You have highland or andian indigenous organizing beginning all the way back in the 19 thirties, when rural peasant organize tions allied with urban leftists. But meanwhile, there is this distinct but parallel process of indigenous organization that emerged among the seroyacu, ashar and shwar peoples. How did these parallel but predistinct processes of organization compare to each other, and how did their merger create such a powerful force? And how did it weave together both this radical resource nationalism that you're talking about

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