S4 Ep37: Revisited: Creating Community to Reclaim Indigenous Language with Lizette B. Suxo
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S4 Ep37: Revisited: Creating Community to Reclaim Indigenous Language with Lizette B. Suxo
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This week, we’re revisiting one of our most loved episodes: a heartfelt conversation with Dr. Lizette B. Suxo, who shares her inspiring journey of reconnecting with her Indigenous heritage through the Aymara language of the Andean region.
We’re bringing this story back because it beautifully reflects the spirit of our new initiative, From Roots to Cuentos — a storytelling program for Indigenous authors and artists of Abya Yala and Latin America who want to create bilingual and trilingual children’s books that celebrate their languages and cultures. ✨ Applications are open now — learn more and apply here.
In this episode (originally published June 2023), Dr. Suxo shares how motherhood, cultural identity, and language learning became intertwined in her life. After becoming a parent and receiving a rare disease diagnosis, she felt a renewed urgency to pass her heritage forward by raising her son as a multilingual global citizen.
Through her story, Lizette reminds us that language is more than communication — it’s a worldview. As her yatichiri (teacher) says: “To learn our language is to preserve the way our ancestors saw, felt, and understood the world.”
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