Existing from Relationality; educations in the experience of Andean-Amazonian knowledge of living from the heart of the Nasa and Coreguaje peoples of Colombia

Abstract

This writing is born from the Colombian Andean-Amazon entrails, from its native people, from their lives, from their existential relationships. From this walk alone with them, and because they allow it, an attempt was made to understand the ways of making-being-world; relationality-human motor skills of girls and boys from the native Nasa peoples of the Resguardo Yaquivá, located in the Colombian Massif between mountains of the municipality of Inzá, in the department of Cauca, and the native people of Coreguaje del Resguardo San Luis, on the banks of the Orteguaza River, in the municipality of Milán, in the department of Caquetá.

In this intentionality, a fabric has been achieved together with the communities, trying to reveal dimensions of their lives, which shows that what the Nasa and Coreguaje girls and boys do, that is, their motor skills, emerge in a relationality where the spiritual-ancestry, the territory, and the living of living take a deep meaning. For this, walking or the methodological form made sense in the ethnographic understanding, for which we lived with the community. With them, life and speech were walked through the embodied experience of the intimate encounter, of everyday life, of the conversations involved with elders, older women, girls and boys, leaders, and women leaders who did more than interviews. And also, from field diaries that tried to weave together with the communities existential understandings of their lives.

This walk revealed that the Nasa and Coreguaje relationality-motricity occurs in a daily relationship of feeling-thinking from the living of their existence, which has an ancestral and spiritual fabric that summons them; in a union to mother earth, to the femininity of territoriality, to the care of life, and to the survival of their existence as peoples. But it is precisely by living that feeling-thinking that Nasas and Coreguajes are made, where the enactment of their relationality-motility is a manifestation of their life, being militants in their living as Nasas and Coreguajes, and in this way that living is preserved.