Maka indigenous leader-in-training Tsiweyenki, whose Spanish name is Gloria Elizeche, smiles with her sisters Cristina, center, and Estela as they cook in her backyard in Mariano Roque Alonso, Paraguay, Monday, April 29, 2019. The solution has been at least a small advance for women in Paraguay: Maka leaders chose his widow, Tsiweyenki to be one of the first female chiefs of an indigenous people in the South American country. “I feel good because the community shows me respect,” she told The Associated Press in the Maka tongue, speaking through an interpreter. Most of the roughly 2,000 Maka live in a 35-acre (14-hectare) colony in a city bordering the capital, Asuncion. Only a century ago, the Maka were largely hunter-gatherers in northwest Paraguay’s remote Chaco region.

Source: Washington Post May 24, 2019 04:09 UTC