A cultural bridge between Ecuador and the MSU community: The resilience of Kichwa language • Michigan Advance

A cultural bridge between Ecuador and the MSU community: The resilience of Kichwa language • Michigan Advance

Elsa Caín-Yuquilema, a member of the Kichwa Puruhá ethnic group from Ecuador and a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant at MSU from 2024 to 2025. | Photo by Erick Diaz VelizFor Elsa Caín-Yuqilema of Ecuador, language expresses one’s culture and when a language is lost, its culture will also vanish, and with it, its people.  To do her part in making sure that doesn’t happen, Caín-Yuqilema kept her Kichwa language alive in the classrooms …