Indigenous media in Latin America

Among the most impressive and radical transformations in Latin America since the 1990s is the emergence of new Indigenous movements. As of [p. 254 ↓]2010, the Indigenous population was 50 million, constituted by more than 400 culturally diverse nations, groups, or tribes, inhabiting the big metropolises as well as some of the most varied, remote, and rich ecosystems. Many are farmers, and several groups live in ways they have done for centuries. Many others are urban professionals, global citizens, and international experts in different fields of knowledge. Together they have generated a great variety of media projects over recent decades, projects which, like such Indigenous movements elsewhere, have done much to reassert Indigenous rights and maintain Indigenous cultures as living expressions of distinctive values.