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returns home on t w dot com tanks. this is the story of 3 sisters. nellie. maria. and norma. the 3 women share an inheritance. from a village elder a no they drive for half an hour through rugged terrain the funeral region of the argentine andes at an altitude of 3600 meters. in the local language can be translated as highly.
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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. saying. the for. their mother gave them the land years ago in a traditional ceremony but they have no whitten record of the transaction the soil in this region seems barren but it's actually quite fertile so it's good for
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farming. in the loop and everything looks so good all the rows here are some nice carrots when was the last time someone watered here. well if you think you've gotten the attention hot us weave and. delicious but seriously people are going to say i should have washed it best you can tickle me in the beard malone. farmer mama had a piece of land up there. she's very small you don't see the neon but it harms our vegetables in 2 or 3 rows each item oh look at all of us use that it belonged to
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her belonged to all of us. she grew a lot of crops there yes and i've only. now been down there a month and a bio and i thought of you madam little she was always growing crops we sold them and in the. last week when they were hauling the whole way and in need that would what should bring the sheen about down in the mountains or not so don't you don't want to see it at the end of the palace as. you are keep 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 livestock have moved up into the highlands.
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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. look at it because they. are going to look ok you can see there's a wreath and it look at the bottom this is toure's rarely get together. it's a special occasion that requires a special meal. in this case. but
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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 and the fruit of. the 1st sip of each beverage is considered an offering to the goddess. nelly son johnny is here.
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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.
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and. this new. dish you can accept. this small house consists of a tiny kitchen and an adjoining room. think. again for the 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
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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. i started when i was 13 or 14 your book i'm in. big happy 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 painter we had to do it by ourselves or with help. to get a bit when i was 15 i killed a cougar. it was a young one. i hit it with a rock when not my they're nasty animals with my son last year norma saw one kill
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a sheep. she was close to where it happened. i wasn't. going to see it because they're always killing mama so she we. took the nothing. my told is not afraid of anything. and she's learned everything i've taught her way up and over. she hasn't started to speak yet but when i also didn't bring me something she does. you know but did you know where to lean with the summons when no it's not it was nice to meet with mama in the of those and when it was time to go we was sad just to be able to bury the new york you young to marry and where you would have to win by i will have to drive . we came back here we were older but the age of 13 or 140 yeah that. was. good but i could. never but we also came here during the school holidays.
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and i'm going to some a holiday with some mom no not in winter i mean sometimes you have a cry the loudest could go most notable. is it. going to be. now it's time for bed told 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 nino. the llamas are heading out to graze in the pasture now they just point them in the right direction and they go off on their own. the llamas will return after sunset.
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prefers the company of humans. she was rejected by her mother early on. nellie has 9 children 7 boys and 2 girls. in one in which they live in and learning anything new and sometimes there's no one there to give them advice why yes 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. and. 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
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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. wonder. why well. so we. when maria comes to elmira you know she stays at norma's place norma misses her sister and would like her to move to the village.
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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. couldn't manage. the media has a very strong character one for. when they get music quite different from the rest of us but i only finished the 6th times when my other sisters finished the 7th grade a mom wanted them to come back to the farm. yet but now they had other plans she went out and got a job so that she could earn money and continue her education and i didn't know what to teach.
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me. it. was. real inherited some sheep from her mother after she got married she and her husband come by mare flocks but they now were a sheep on her mother in law's farm. but. if the kids get get get get get it. on as you can one of the rooms that. maria returned to the pool region when she was 31 after she spent time living in other parts of the country. jim if we put it did
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it get there i left home because i wanted to study and i was so fascinated with life in towns and cities. i've lived in lowry all. want to scientists. and don't see when i was down south of england i met. some of them approach a people and they kept asking me about my point of 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. in. the rear son suffers from among disease
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so high altitude 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. here is often alone on the farm. at night drug smugglers sometimes past her house while traveling to and from neighboring bolivia. some of them yes or me only a few days ago they came back. and i was really scared. they were here the day before yesterday to our 4 dogs were barking like crazy. the drug dealers got scared
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and turned around. i think they had a car and a small truck. this was about midnight illinois do you mean we saw the car and then the truck came and stopped over there right by the creek i.v. and they took coca leaves and some other stuff with them. and we don't know anything about the drug trade. lipsius 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 will tell you not that he doesn't bring any supplies with him so i have to make sure that we've got enough food me i don't want my husband hardly ever comes out here any more. he
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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 oakland and when the money. goes out to bring back the sheep because maria 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. maria
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works for the organization for things like. what the co-op was set up by local women to promote trade with their handicrafts. play. the red group provides micro credit so that women can buy wool. the co-op also sells the finished products at fair prices to shops throughout argentina. i was 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 women specialize in living and weaving in huge traditional patterns. but maria has also taught these skills to her sons. she wants to change some of the old gender roles. and right there could be good of course in korea culture the
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women too old to work around the house and in the fields. the men often work somewhere else you know i don't know over the years and i've learned that it's important to be true to yourself and not to worry about what others think when you say local 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 do. women have a lot of work to do before but i don't always have a say in what they have to do what market. goes better now so we are finding 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 it is if a woman who works hard around the house she's a good person. for the local scene but i believe that i can be a good woman even if i don't do
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a lot of housework when i went on that job but i'm not. so you know we know that. this is the town have to cut. the red good a co-operative has an office here. so this isn't just a job for maria it's a profession. the responsibilities of the include teaching courses on how to promote equality for women. the organization'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. a 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 because the
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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. jordan form though it will now 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. there's a reason behind this strategy all the projects the government wants to get its hands on the natural resources in this region which i mean that's why they want the
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people to live they want to mine the lithium and the salt that's here with their leadership and they don't want the local residents to get in their wife i'm not going to fill. him. 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 i guess. you better know if you don't you're not gonna. kill carter is an attractive county in the kid brother valley and it's popular with tourists. maria's house stands on the edge of town.
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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.
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sacred to us but they have healing power and can make our lives better. to make sure that our farmers are doing well and that we are doing well. they take away our fears. we sacrifice a fetus to the goddess who provides us with everything we have. he assume we just finished drying 1. 1 of the there and the day before yesterday we started drawing another one it's pretty small or too small to get the there you see the interview.
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nellie choose coca 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. in the morning only he an m.r.a. know there are no hills and no fields just the house lugar's in this land belonged 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 lamas return. norma arrives to round them up for the night.
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shift. but i may seem to think that that my life on is far means everything to me if i go sit on my own boss when i come and go and i please. with your eyes water i look after the sheep the early in the day or late in the ways i do it and again it's the best life i could have meaning it. faith that want to keep.
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this is the provincial capital side of salvador. norma's daughter gabby moved here to study. she's majoring in social work but 1st she didn't want to be called. i've always told my children to get an education. that we've got to have on time 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 that. 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's you know she worked hard and took care of everything by herself like the paperwork and dealing with the officials so i mean she's done a good job mostly we had. a skip and she said she was going to make something of
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herself and she did to me because my younger son if she had a scholarship to go she wouldn't have to worry about money so this year so last. 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 it makes sense. if the. c.s.
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husband is staying with his son and daughter in law again given that. you know just. how do you feel when you. go yes we need. it now. they pray for protective spirits to return to the boy's body. the calling 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. the all who guru because from. a cuckoo cuckoo little room.
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they cover their heads to keep the spirit in the body through the night. in the morning maria leaves again for el nino. the red bull in a cooperative has rented a van to take its employees and their handicrafts to a local market event called the tree. it's held once a year and attracts traders and customers from all over even neighboring she lay and bolivia in the news. all that little bit would. be bulldozed. or that little bit would. come.
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a festival atmosphere. the event lasts 2 days plenty of time to greet old friends and make new ones. coming out of maria introduces her sister to some of the people at the market park or. not at all there is little to target many of their loved. ones are going to. pass. a budget at the opening ceremony the argentine flag is raised and people sing the national anthem. me. at all. because your people have their own flag which has
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while the 3 sisters are at the market norma's 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 family and. i want to talk to families about how their lives are going. thank you they can tell me
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their problems. and i'll try to help them getting any. i want to keep but i feel good here on the farm and in my home i can't explain it but i feel like i belong here but i am i'm getting used to city life but are you comfortable here i feel free that's mine i said looking good 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
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this do without salt is an offering to. mother earth. norma and nellie have complete faith in. she looks after the livestock the harvest and their families. those who honor the goddess with a sacrifice 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 will treat it with respect and value but as they're all. playing.
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