This is the story of 3 sisters. Nellie. Dr. 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 funeral region of the argentine n. D. S. 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 so. Trees ago by their ancestors and Indigenous People call. Saying. 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 its actually quite fertile so its good for 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. When the few days ago. We did. Delicious but seriously people are going to say i should have washed it best you can tickle me in the beard and alone. For my mom had a piece of land up there. She did very small to then yell but in the times of vegetables in 2 or 3 rows each. Look at us 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 up and. Down there of mice and of bio parents and i demanded little she was always growing crops if we sold them enough. Last week when they were hauling the whole wheat and in need wed watch her bring the sheen about out in the mountains or not so dont we dont want to see you get there on the scene. You are cute im 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 its autumn and the livestock have moved up into the high lands. Nellie has been looking after the animals for 8 days now. Its solitary work but theres no one else here to do it. To. Keep. It open and of course they. Are going to look ok you cant eat it it and it will get there with this is toures rarely get together. Its a special occasion that requires a special meal. In this case. 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 whine and soft drinks. Venus and only. The 1st sip of each beverage is considered an offering to the goddess. Nelly son johnny is here. Normas husband is feeding cocoa leaves to. This billy goat its a ritual thats intended to enhance the animals fertility. Bento works in the local mines and comes home every 2 weeks. Now its time to slaughter the sheep. In another ritual they place a stone on the sheeps belly to ensure that the other sheep will always have enough to eat. Of. This. Did you get this. This small house consists of a tiny kitchen and an adjoining room. You see. Him coming up. 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. I was a real coward i couldnt do it until i was 16. I started when i was 13 or 14 your book i mean thats a big i have ever slaughtered livestock i didnt even when i was older. One day i just left mama with the herd. I couldnt 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 need to plan it we had to do it by ourselves or with help. She get to because when i was 15 i killed a cougar. It was a young one. I hit it with a rock that were not my job theyre nasty animals my son the last year norma saw one kill a sheep. She was close to where it happened. I wasnt. Going to get through because there are always killing llamas or sheep being. The nothing. My told is not afraid of anything made up and shes learned everything ive told her up and dont believe she hasnt started to speak yet but when i also didnt bring me something she does. You know. Because. It would only mean that they almost were not as it was nice to live with mom or and the others and when it was time to go we was sad just to be over that week the new young to marry into my you know down to him by i will never drive the 2 halves we came back here and we were older but the age of 13 or 140 yeah that now and see that this was the. One that i could. Never get we also came here during the school holidays. And im going to some Holiday Weekend some on no not in winter i mean sometimes you have a crack in the loudest good guy most notable. Is it looked. Good for you now its time for bay told johnny norma and maria to leave. Nellie will stay for 2 more days her husband like beethoven 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. 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 one in which they live in and learning anything new and sometimes theres 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. They dont eat right and do pretty much whatever they want. With it thats why someone tends to the youngest one which i mean when i 1st come out here i really miss them a lot. Millie and norma and their families also live in l. But i know that 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 thats intended to help the child learn to speak. One. More well. We. When the real comes to elmira you know she stays at normas 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 the 2 look you grew up together and took care of each other from an early age we were inseparable shes the best sister i have absolutely the best. You know me what it meant. But yeah i mean he has a very strong character one for. When they have music quite different from the rest of us sort of thought that but i only finished the 6th. When my other sisters finished the 7th grade a mom wanted them to come back to the farm because. They had other plans she went out and got a job so that she could and money and continue her education in the city but in a way to. Do. It. With 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 laws farm. But. You get get get get get get get it. On as you go and i think that. Maria returned to the pool region when she was 31 after she spent time living in other parts of the country. But i left home because i wanted to study and obviously fascinated with life in towns and cities being left will be i lived in lowry all. Scientists. And dont see when i was down south of england i met. Some of them approach a people and they kept asking me about my toyota culture they thought it was really interesting and wanted to learn more about the ceremonies. I knew all the rituals but i didnt 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 im still here. And ill never leave again you may have already. Have a good. Son suffers from among disease so High Altitude 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 lifestyle. Is not here her mother in law takes over. There is often alone on the farm. At night drug smugglers sometimes past her house while traveling to and from neighboring bolivia. A few days ago they came back. And i was really scared but they were here the day before yesterday to see 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 lot also not this was about midnight illinois gee i dont 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 dont know anything about the drug trade. Good c. S. Adult children are often here during the day but she rarely sees her husband. This year marks their 50th wedding anniversary but doesnt 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 doesnt bring any supplies with him so i have to make sure that weve got enough food. My husband hardly ever comes out here any more. He doesnt like being with an entire family and hes always in a bad. Knee and said he goes off to stay at my sons house my son who is married to maria on a plane the money. Goes out to bring back the sheep because no rhea has to go back down to the valley. And. Maria is driving 100 kilometers through the cape brought a valley. Shes on her way to the monthly meeting of the red cooperative. Maria works for the organization for. What the coop was set up by local women to promote trade with their handicrafts. The rest kona Group Provides micro credits so that women can buy well. The coop also sells the finished products at fair prices to shops throughout argentina. Was. The cooperatives work provides an income for 1000 local families. Since they have some money coming and they dont 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 i knew i could do to korea 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 dont know over the years and ive learned that its important to be true to yourself and not to worry about what others think when in say local women spend all their time helping others they dont do enough for themselves i dont want that i want to enjoy what i call it women have a lot of work to do that i dont always have a say in what they have to do but market. Asking which of course it or not we are fighting for the right to become active members of society. And we dont want to spend all our time just working in the kitchen. Thats how local people think if a woman who works hard around the house shes a good person. But i believe that i can be a good woman even if i dont do a lot of housework when i when i get the job john i want of course that youre so you know we know that. This is the town to have to cut. The red you know cooperative has an office here. This isnt just a job for maria its a profession. Responsibilities of the coop include teaching courses on how to promote equality for women. The organisations handicrafts project is designed primarily to encourage 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 arent doing anything to stop them. Because they think that the kids will have a Better Future somewhere else. Young people near full language because the government doesnt have any programs that benefit people in Rural CommunitiesIndigenous 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 politically. Its a very Clear Strategy you know were. Going to thank has no interest in keeping Indigenous People on their land. Theres a reason behind this strategy the projects the government wants to get its hands on the Natural Resources in this region which i mean thats why i want the people to live they want to mine the lithium and the salt but. Were. Going to play and i dont want the local residents to get in there wife im not. Going to. Get into the red tuna cooperative has its own shop where it sells knitwear made by the color women. But. This couple is visiting from buenos iris. You know. Youve got me youre not gonna. Kill carter is an attractive town in the cape brother valley and its 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. To mundo has trained as a cook and he also helps with the household chores. When the couples 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 shell head back out to the highlands to work on the family farm busy. Meanwhile nellies eldest daughter and youngest son stop by for a visit. Every day nellie makes cheese from sheeps milk. The call you people often sacrifice life stock to show their devotion to mother earth. These are dried llama fetuses. Theyre 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. We sacrifice a fetus to the goddess who provides us with everything we have. He assume we just finished drying one. Woman there and the day before yesterday we started drawing another one its pretty small and too small to get the. 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. Mordantly in m. R. A no there are no hills and no fields just the house leaders 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 lamas return. Norma arrives to round them up for the night. When i may seem to think that my life on his farm means everything to me it costs and im my own boss and i come and go and i please. Joe. I look after the sheep not the early in the day or late in the ways i do it and again its the best life i could have meaning it. Faith that want to keep. Faith based him he neednt. Fear the same thing why do you give. Him a coffee ill do it before they think something. Funny and. The animals are nervous. There might be a cougar or other predator nearby. If. This is the provincial capital side salvador. Normas daughter gabby moved here to study. Shes majoring in social work but 1st she didnt want to leave. Ive always told my children to get an education. Have you got it i wanted to study nursing but she couldnt get into Nothing School with the sick she came back and stayed with me for a year but eventually left 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 you know she worked hard and took care of everything by herself like the paperwork and dealing with the officials let them eat your lunch while shes done a good job. Yet. She said she was going to make something of a self and she did it with a home yes if she had a scholarship to go she wouldnt have to worry about money so lets. She can do anything she wants. And. Maria arrives home too late for dinner. But in time for the daily ritual with a. Little. Kid to. See as husband is staying with his son and daughter in law again even though. You know just. How do you feel when you. Land. Viti. Levu make it out. They pray for protective spirits to return to the boys 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. Dole who can. Cook Good Good Good good good luck to them. 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 corner cooperative has rented a van to take its employees and their handicrafts to a local market event called the tree. Its held once a year and attracts traders and customers from all over even neighboring she lay and bolivia. Or it would. Impose. Or little it would. Be able. To go. To you know. The market is located about 60 kilometers away they travel through a Mountain Pass. A. Law. Enormous daughter gabby arrives by bus to look after the livestock on the family farm or the. Local people. On the. T. V. News. On. The. Other. The traders set up their stands on the village soccer field. Good move the women from a 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. And mom of maria introduces her sister to some of the people at the market. Was going to target a man i gotta love. It when youre going to. Pass. Our leaders at the Opening Ceremony the argentine flag is raised and people sing the national anthem. The last. Call a liar. Because your people have their own flag which has also been raised. Maria is doing some shopping using apples and dried grapes as currency. She gets a few more dried grapes back as change. Nellie plans to exchange a box of pears for some cheese on the ground. While the 3 sisters are at the market normas 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 id like to work and. Especially in the Elementary Schools theyre going to. I want to talk to world families about how their lives are going. Good they can tell me their problems. And ill try to help them getting any. But i feel good here on the farm in in my home i cant explain it but i feel like i belong here im getting used to city life but i have trouble here i feel free its mine. Its winter now and a lot has happened over the past few months. Nellies 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. Or mother earth but the mood is subdued. Theyre 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 texas often. They cook the stew into pots. In one theres no salt. The to. Do without salt is an offering to. Mother earth. Norma and nellie 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 were treated with respect and value but as there are. A small fish. Card. And a massive cooking class. Marsay michelin starred chef you know it. Shows a 1000 amateur cooks what a sardine can do. 30 minutes w. Where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one divisional and if you just pay for us when official information as a journalist i have worked on the strength of many canvas and their problems are almost the same for doing the social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption because. 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