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Recovering the Visual Memory of Comunidad El Troje, Ecuador in the United States (1954-2021)

The project will recover photos in the United States and take them to El Troje to contribute to historical memory which connects these two countries. The goal is to give back dignity to indigenous people in Troje , prepare a photo exhibition, and give them to the community. Troje, in Ecuador, is an indigenous community of native Quechua-speakers where Protestantism began an enormous awakening in 1954, even though the presence of religious missions from the United States started in 1902. Since the 1950s, religious missions and Peace Corps Volunteers took hundreds of pictures about indigenous that have not been exhibited and which have been stored in personal and institutional archives.