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this is the story of 3 sisters. nellie. and i really have nothing. but good and normal i'll take the 3 women share an inheritance. from the 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 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 core you. listening. yank. 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 room with everything looks so good all the rows here are some nice carrots when was the last time someone watered here then. when the few days ago. we didn't. delicious but seriously people are going to say i should have washed it best you can tickle me and there are tears in the lower. form our mom had a piece of land up there. to be very small to then yeah but it harms our vegetables in 2 or 3 rows each. look at us all of us use that land that belonged to her belonged to all of us. she grew

a lot of crops there yes and of and. now back down there in the sand oh by oh right around the same bites of humanity she was always growing crops we sold them and you know. sequined the west helena and in the evening we'd watch her bring the she knew that out in the mountains or no saddam you don't see that on the bottles as. you are keeping i'm happy here this is my home. and. just. 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.

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. and. it will put a little girl so they. are going to look ok look at me there's a look and it look at that with this is toure's 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 of the fruit of. the 1st sip of each beverage is considered an offering to the goddess. of. nellie 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.

and. this and. i. think it's because. this small house consists of a tiny kitchen and an adjoining room. i. think you can put them on i think they know. 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. i started when i was 13 or 14 your book men. would be good 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 plan and we had to do it by ourselves or with help. she get to when i was 15 i killed a cougar. it was a young one. i hit it with a rock they were not my 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 see cougars are always killing llamas or sheep we. were not there. mike told us not afraid of anything made up and she's learned everything after the up and. she hasn't started to speak yet but when i also didn't bring me something she does. enough. to get. it without leaving the thing i'm most when it was nice to live with mom or in the of those when it was time to go we was sad just to be over the week the new young married into my youth and doing bio we left with relatives we came back here and we were older but the age of 13 or 140 yeah that. was a. month but i could. never we also came here during the school holidays.

and i'm going to summer holiday we have some long term winter i mean sometimes you have a crowd the loudest could go. no little. now it's time for bay 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 marino. the llamas are heading out to graze in the pasture. just points them in the right direction and they go off on their own. will return after sunset. but come 1st the company of humans. she was rejected by. her mother early on.

nellie has 9 children 7 boys and 2 girls. in what in and 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. and it goes 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 el nino 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. eat. eat

eat eat eat. normal has 7 children and the granddaughter jenny. here the parents are performing a ritual that's intended to help the child learn to speak. the language. one. more. to. oh 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. i mean

it's 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 me what it meant. right here and there hasn't been a 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 current a mom wanted them to come back to the farm because yeah but maddy had other plans she went out and got a job so that she could and money and continue her education but in a way to. do .

it. with the money that got 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 were a sheep on her mother in law's farm. that. year to get get get get get get get get. on as they were that. maria returned to the pool region when she was 31 after she spent time living in other parts of the country. and human food but it did give you that i left home because i wanted to study and obviously fascinated with life

in towns and cities. be i'm lived in la rio. bought. scientists. and. see that and don't see when i was down south i met. some of them up to chip 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 they 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. son suffers from a lung disease so high altitudes are bad for his health. here no real live 80

kilometers away but the region is her home. and she comes here whenever she can to look after her life stuck. in the us not here her mother in law takes over. there is often alone on the farm. at night drug smugglers sometimes past our house small traveling to and from neighboring bolivia. only a few days ago they came back. and i was really scared but from what they were here the day before yesterday. our 4 dogs were barking like crazy. the drug dealers got scared and turned around. and i think they had a car and a small truck and

a little fellow not this was about midnight the law not you don't mean we saw the car and then the truck came and stopped over there right by the creek i mean 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. on the zone when the ability of will 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 for me i don't want my husband hardly ever comes out here anymore. he doesn't like being with him and tired. 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 rhea has to go back down to the valley. tonight. maria is driving 100 kilometers through the cape brought a valley. she's on her way to the monthly meeting of the red co-operative. maria works for the organization for.

what the co-op was set up by local women to promote trade with their handicrafts. the rest to no 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. was a was the cooperatives work provides an income for $1000.00 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 in huge traditional patterns. but maria has also taught these skills to her sons. she wants to change some of the old gender roles i know i could do it of course in korea culture

the women do all the work around the house and in the fields. the men often work somewhere else you know i don't know over the years 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 recall you women have a lot of work to do you know if you but i don't always have a say in what they have to do what market dealer will create a course in the market. that are not 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 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 joe john i want of course that you're so you

know we know that. this is the town have to cut. the red good a co-operative has an office here. this isn't just a job for maria it's a profession. responsibilities at the co-op 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 need for wang 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 government wants to get its hands on the natural resources in this region which i mean that's why they want the people to leave they want to man the lithium and the salt that's here we're. going to plant

they don't want the local residents to get in their wife i'm not. 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 know. you got me you're not gonna go. to canada is an attractive town in the cape brother valley and it's popular with tourists. you know rios house stands on the edge of town. when she comes home for lunch her husband has the food ready.

number one has trained as a cook and 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. the rest of. us the. normal 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 mama fetuses.

they're sacred to us but they have healing power and can make our lives better. they make sure that our farmers are doing well and that we are doing well. they take away our fears and. we sacrifice a fetus to the goddess who provides us with everything we have. years so we just finished trying one out or. one of the there and the day before yesterday we started drawing another one it's pretty small little small to get the there you see the entire year.

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. you not only he an m.r.a. know there are no hills and no fields just the house leaders in this land belong to our grandparents 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.

shift. but i may seem to think that that my life on its farm means everything to me it costs and i'm my own boss and i come and go when i please. so i watch water and look after the sheep early in the day or late thing as i do it and again it's the best life i could have meaning it. faces that want to keep. it if it.

fits him he didn't think so much fear the same idea. and will compete further to the view for me being something. for. a father to find out. for. the animals are nervous. there might be a cougar or other predator nearby. if. this is the provincial capital side salvador.

norma's daughter gabby moved here to study. she's majoring in social work but 1st she didn't want to leave. yourself. i've always told my children to get an education. that we've got a long 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 internet or anything. 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 you know she worked hard and took care of everything by herself like the paperwork and dealing with the officials. i mean she's done a good job mostly we have. a skip and she said she was going to make something of

herself and she did it with a home. and she had a scholarship because she wouldn't have to worry about money so let's so let's. she can do anything she wants. and. the real arrives home too late for dinner. but in time for the daily ritual with a. little. kid it's in a. safe. see as husband is staying with his son and daughter in law again even though.

your image. do you feel when you. go yes. 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. goal he will give you a little. cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo.

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 and. it's held once a year and attracts traders and customers from all over even neighboring chile and bolivia. or it would. impose. or it would be.

to. go she. seems. to be going to. the market is located about 60 kilometers away they travel through a mountain pass. the food. and. the. enormous daughter gabby arrives by bus to look after the livestock on the family farm.

to. eat it. give us a little. bit . of. the traders set up their stands on the village soccer field the. good living the women from the co-operative can exchange their handicrafts for fruit vegetables meat or cheese. and. the market has a festival atmosphere. the event lasts 2 days plenty of time to greet old friends

and make new ones. and mom but now we're introducing her sister to some of the people at the market park or. not that well there's little you can get a man of the love. then you're going to. last. and it the opening ceremony the argentine flag is raised and people sing the national anthem. there's me. eat all the fire. and all a liar. because your people have their own flag which has also been raised.

well. maria is doing some shopping using apples and dried grapes as currency. and she gets a few more dried grapes back as change. nelly 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 there i mean. i want to talk to families about how their lives are going. good i can tell me their problems. and

i'll try to help them getting enemy. i want to keep but i feel good here on the fire and 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. it's winter now and a lot has happened over the past few months. nellie's 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 but. nothing quite. like. the old sofa. they cook the stew into pots. in one there's no salt. to.

do with. mother earth. norma have complete faith. she looks after the livestock 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 will treat it with respect and value it as there are. saying.

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