Dolores Cacuango and the Origin of the Mother Country: Seed for the Kichwización of the World

In present-day Ecuador, a cursory bibliographic revision serves to show that the subject of indigenous women leaders is enjoying a period of great productivity. Many reasons may be attributed to this; the two most important being, on the one hand, the emergence of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement as a powerful interlocutor of the Ecuadorian State, and, on the other, the singular feminine participation in the processes of ethnic leadership.