the this is the story of 3 sisters. nellie. maria. and norma. the 3 women share an inheritance. from the village elder a no they drive for half an hour through rugged terrain the pina region of the argentine andes at an altitude of 3600 meters. in the local language can be translated as high land. the women are traveling to their small family farm located in a region that was settled. centuries ago by their ancestors and indigenous people

call the koya. yang can you believe it. the for. their mother gave them the land years ago in a traditional ceremony but they have no written record of the transaction the soil in this region seems barren but it's actually quite fertile so it's good for farming.

in the loop with everything look so good all the rows here are some nice carrots when was the last time someone walked in here than i did a. few days ago in hollywood us we've been. delicious but seriously people are going to say i should've washed it best you can tickle me in their beers in the lower. farm our mom had a piece of land up there. very small the. vegetables in 2 or 3 rows each item all of us used that land that belonged to her so it belonged to all of us. she grew a lot of crops there yes and i've been with her now down there in my santa bio and

i don't remember the she was always growing crops if we sold them and you know. last week when they were hell on the whole and in need of that we'd watch her bring the sheep me back down in the mountains or nestled on me don't wanna see it get there on the scene. it's your lucky day i'm happy here this is my home. last summer all 3 women came here to help their mother on the farm. but she died 5 months ago and no one has lived here since. now it's autumn and the life stock have moved up into the high lands. nellie has been looking after the animals for 8 days now. it's solitary work but

there's no one else here to do it. to. put. up with it and of course they. are going to look ok you can see there's a need and you look at that one of the sisters rarely get together. it's a special occasion that requires a special meal. in this case. little . but before they start preparing the meal they bring gifts for the earth goddess. anyone who slaughters an animal for meat or harvest the crop

must do this. the gifts include cocoa leaves wine and soft drinks. venus. for. the 1st sip of each beverage is considered an offering to the goddess. nelly son johnny is here. norma's husband is feeding cocoa leaves to. this billy goat it's a ritual that's intended to enhance the animal's fertility. beto works in the local

mines and comes home every 2 weeks. now it's time to slaughter the sheep. in another ritual they place a stone on the sheep's belly to ensure that the other sheep will always have enough to eat. if you get it written. in.

this new. edition i think it is. this small house consists of a tiny kitchen and an adjoining room. and think. again for my mother to know how the family used to live here together during the summer. when nellie norma and maria were children they went to school during the winter in the town of about 50 kilometers from here. they walked all the way and stayed there with relatives. in the summer they came back to help their mother with the farm work she taught them how to slaughter livestock. and.

i was a real coward i couldn't do it until i was 16 so i started when i was 13 or 14 your book i mean. it i hardly ever slaughtered livestock you know even when i was older . one day i just left mama with the herd. i couldn't bear to watch it made me really sad to have to kill them i learned how to do it but it just broke my heart still when we needed a plane we had to do it by ourselves or with help. when i was 15 i killed a cougar. it was a young one. i hit it with a rock it was not my job they're nasty animals my son last year norma saw one kill a sheep. she was close to where it happened. i wasn't. going

to get you through because they're always killing mama associate me. with another. my gold is not afraid of anything. and she's learned everything i've told her up and. she hasn't started to speak yet but when i also didn't bring me something she does. you know that to get it that way to leave me in that they almost were not it was nice to live with mom around the others and when it was time to go we were satisfied to be over there if the new young married him to move on to him by and we left with relatives we can make him we were older but the age of 13 or 140 yeah then yes it was a. month but i could. not like that we also came here during the school holidays. and i'm going to summer holidays some on yet another winter i think sometimes you

have a crowd the loudest could go most notable. people are now it's time for big toe johnny norma and maria to leave *. nellie will stay for 2 more days her husband works in the mines for 20 days at a time. her children live in the village of el moreno. the llamas are heading out to graze in the pasture. just points them in the right direction and they go off on their own the llamas will return after sunset. prefers the company of humans. she was rejected by. her mother early on. nelly has 9 children 7 boys and 2 girls. in what didn't include they live in

and learning anything new and sometimes there's no one there to give them advice why yes he can will i have someone who looks after the youngest boy. otherwise they all just go out and play. and they don't eat right and do pretty much whatever they want. with it that's why someone tends to the youngest one which i mean when i 1st come out here i really miss them a lot. nellie and norma and their families also live in l. but i know until 2 years ago there was no electricity here. at the local school children whose mothers are away from home are fed and given a place to sleep. or eat.

normal has 7 children and a granddaughter jenny. here the parents are performing a ritual that's intended to help the child learn to speak. and we. said. one. mom when. so we. when the real comes to elmore you know she stays at norma's place norma misses her sister and would like her to move to the village. but i mean that is my favorite sister i love her very very much. grew up

together and took care of each other from an early age we were inseparable she's the best sister i have absolutely the best. you know many what it meant. but here america has a very strong character one for. when they have music quite different from the rest of us but i only finished the 6th. when my other sisters finished the 7 the great a mom wanted them to come back to the farm. yeah but maddy had other plans she went out and got a job so that she could earn money and continue her education and that in a way to teach. me.

to to be a lot more real inherited some sheep from her mother after she got married she and her husband come by mare flocks but they now are a sheep on her mother in law's farm. but. you get to get get get get get get it. on as you can one of the route that. maria returned to the pool region when she was 31 after she spent time living in other parts of the country. german food but it did give you that i left home because i wanted to study and i was fascinated with life in towns and cities. being i'm lived in lowry all. bought.

and don't see when i was down south of england i met. some of the muppet ship people and they kept asking me about my oil culture they thought it was really interesting and wanted to learn more about the ceremonies. i knew all the rituals but i didn't think much about what i meant so it was my experience with them approaches that prompted me to come back here. i plan to stay for just a month. but i'm still here. and i'll never leave again you may have already gotten many. sun suffers from among disease so high altitudes are bad for his health. here no real live 80 kilometers away but the region is her home. here she comes here

whenever she can to look after her lifestyle. is not here her mother in law takes over. ringback there is often alone on the farm. at night drug smugglers sometimes past her house small traveling to and from neighboring bolivia. me only a few days ago they came back. when i was really scared. they were here the day before yesterday to see our 4 dogs were barking like crazy. the drug dealers got scared and turned around. i think they had a car and a small truck and a little thing i know this was about midnight. don't tell me we saw the car and

then the truck came and stopped over there right by the creek ivy and they took coca leaves and some other stuff with them. and we don't know anything about the drug trade. lucy as adult children are often here during the day but she rarely sees her husband. this year marks their 50th wedding anniversary but doesn't feel like celebrating. the ability at all get along fine for a few days and then we start arguing. it really gets out of hand he would not tell you not that he doesn't bring any supplies with him so i have to make sure that we've got enough food. my husband hardly ever comes out here any more. he doesn't like being with an entire family and he's always in a bad mood. instead he goes off to stay at my son's house my son who is married to

maria on a plane the money. goes out to bring back a sheep because no ria has to go back down to the valley. tonight. maria is driving 100 kilometers through the cape brought a valley to opera. she's on her way to the monthly meeting of the red co-operative. the real work for the organization for. the. sun and what the co-op was set up by local women to promote trade with their handicrafts to

. claim. the rest kona group provides micro credits so that women can buy wool. the co-op also sells the finished products at fair prices to shops throughout argentina. the cooperatives work provides an income for 1000 local families. since they have some money coming and they don't have to move away from their villages to look for work. or your women specialize in living and weaving and huge traditional patterns . but maria has also taught the skills to her sons. she wants to change some of the old gentleman. i mean right there could be a record in korea culture the women do all the work around the house and in the fields. the men often work somewhere else you know what only over

the years i've learned that it's important to be true to yourself and not to worry about what others think. women spend all their time helping others they don't do enough for themselves i don't want that i want to enjoy what i just call you women have a lot of work to do before but i don't always have a say in what they have to do but of. course that. goes better now so we are fighting for the right to become active members of society. and we don't want to spend all our time just working in the kitchen. that's how local people think if a woman works hard around the house she's a good person. for the local scene and but i believe that i can be a good woman even if i don't do a lot of housework when i when i get. so you know we know.

this is the town of. the red queen a co-operative has an office here. this isn't just a job for maria it's a profession. her responsibilities at the co-op include teaching courses on how to promote equality for women. the organisation's handicrafts project is designed primarily to encourage local families to stay on their ancestral lands instead of giving into the temptation to move to the towns and cities. i. lot of young people are leaving this area and their parents aren't doing anything to stop them. because they think that the kids will have a better future somewhere else. young people near for gangs because the government doesn't have any programs that benefit people in rural communities indigenous people. but.

many of the people have already left their land. there have been no burials at this cemetery for quite some time. join and form though it will not be in my opinion the politicians are simply trying to drive the indigenous people off their land. it's a very clear strategy you know. but again they have no interest in keeping indigenous people on their land or there's a reason behind this strategy or the projects the government wants to get its hands on the natural resources in this region. that's why they want the people to leave they want to man the lithium and the salt that's here with their leadership and they don't want the local residents to get in their way i'm not but

a bonus to look. into the red tuna co-operative has its own shop where it sells knitwear made by the call your women. but. this couple is visiting from buenos itis. the letter. you got me you're not gonna set your. car is an attractive town in the kid brother valley and it's popular with tourists . maria's house stands on the edge of town. when she comes home for lunch her husband has the food ready.

to mundo has trained as a cook but he also helps with the household chores. when the couple's 3 sons come home from school in the afternoon fernando is there to look after them. all this gives maria more time to devote to her work. norma will spend one more day with her family at the house in el moreno. then she'll head back out to the highlands to work on the family farm busy busy. meanwhile nellie's eldest daughter and youngest son stop by for

a visit. every day nellie makes cheese from sheep's milk. the call you people often sacrifice livestock to show their devotion to mother earth. these are dried llama fetuses. they're sacred to us but they have healing power be an engine make our lives better

. than most of them make sure that our farm is doing well and that we are doing well at the end of these clear take away our fears. we sacrifice a fetus to the goddess who provides us with everything we have like he assume we just finished drying one iota. you know there and the day before yesterday we started drawing another one it's pretty small of them so much to get the there you see them tell you.

nellie choose cocoa leaves to help her cope with the thin air at this altitude she enjoys living on the farm much more than being in the village. the loon mordantly he an m.r.a. no there are no hills and no fields just the house has been in this land belong to our grandparents when and 10 years ago our mother gave it to us and get them. at sunset when the shadow of the mountain reaches the bottom of the valley the lama's return. norma arrives to round them up for the night.

but i would seem to think that that my life on a farm meant everything to me if gore said i'm my own boss and i come and go when i please. with your voice water i look after the sheep early in the day or late at local as i do it and again it's the best life i could hardly bring it. faith that seemed to want to keep. faith that since he didn't take money from 4 to 7 ready.

in local. funding that before the sun. would find them and. the animals are nervous. there might be a cougar or other predator nearby. as . this is the provincial capital sort of salvador.

norma's daughter gabby moved here to study. she's majoring in social work but 1st she didn't want to leave paul. just wanted to tell you i've always told my children to get an education. have you got it i wanted to study nursing but she couldn't get into nothing school with the sick she came back and stayed with me for yeah but then she never took anything to get. gabby is 20 years old and is in her 1st year of college. norma helped to register and find a place to stay with relatives. she said online she worked hard and took care of everything by herself like the paperwork and dealing with efficiency. i mean she's done a good job movie yet. she said she was going to make something of a self and she did you know if she had a scholarship to go she wouldn't have to worry about money so that's. she can do

anything she wants. and. maria arrives home too late for dinner. but in time for the daily ritual with a. little. break if it's in. let's see as husband is staying with his son and daughter in law again shooting him did. you notice.

how do you feel when you. meet polanski. man. they pray for protective spirits to return to the boy's body. the call you people believe that if someone becomes frightened during the day the spirit leaves the body and that could cause depression or an illness. so in the evening the family prays for the spirits to come back to them the. goal here to be able to. cook. brutal truth and. they cover their heads to keep the spirit in the body through the night.

in the morning maria leaves again for el marino. the red bull in a cooperative has rented a van to take its employees and their handicrafts to a local market that. it's held once a year and attracts traders and customers from all over even neighboring chile and bolivia in the news. or the little bit with. the bulldozers. or the blow it would. come.

to. associate it. seems. to me you know. the market is located about 60 kilometers away they travel through a mountain pass. among. the 1st. to. be. enormous daughter gabby arrives by bus to look after the livestock on the family farm and to. talk.

to. us. i'm. good. with the. little. bit. of. the trader set up their stands on the village soccer field. a good move the women from the cooperative can exchange their handicrafts for fruit vegetables meat or cheese. on. the market has a festival atmosphere. the event lasts 2 days plenty of time to greet old friends and make new ones like our mom. now we are introduced as her sister to some of the

people at the market park or. the other is going to target a man of the love. you're going to see. at the opening ceremony the argentine flag is raised and people sing the national anthem on the. fire. fire. fire. and all a liar. because your people have their own flag which has also been raised.

oh. maria is doing some shopping using apples and dried grapes as currency. and. she gets a few more dried grapes back as change. nellie plans to exchange a box of pears for some cheese. while

the 3 sisters are at the market enormous daughter gabby looks after the farm. norma says gabby will probably find a job as a social worker after she completes her studies. i mean in the morning i'd like to work and. especially in the elementary schools they're going to find out if i want to talk to families about how their lives are going. thank you they can tell me their problems. and i'll try to help them getting into.

but i feel good here on the farm and in in my home i can't explain it but i feel like i belong here i'm getting used to city life but i have trouble here i feel free it's mine get a look. it's winter now and a lot has happened over the past few months. 14 year old son was killed 6 weeks ago in an accident on the mountain pass highway. now on aug 22nd the family is celebrating the festival of pop or mother earth. but the mood is subdued .

they're making a special stew the ingredients are strictly prescribed by tradition. later they add cocoa leaves wine and alcoholic spirits as gifts to the goddess. nothing quite. like. gold. they cook the stew into pots. in one there's no salt. the to.

do with salt is an offering to. mother earth. norma have complete faith. she looks after the life the harvest and their families. those who. will be blessed by her in return. one day the 3 sisters will hold a ceremony to transfer ownership of this land to their children just as their mother did with them. maria norma and nellie hope their children were treated with respect and value but as they're all. yanked.

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