Nelson Iguaran, director of your El Arroyo bilingual school near Riohacha, Colombia, in which basic because of eighth graders are trained when you look at the Foreign language and you may Wayuu naike.

It was a later date at work having Elion Uriana, a good palabrero, otherwise tribal judge, inside the Colombia's Wayuu local community. A chief out-of his goat-herding clan, he was due to the wake out of an arranged wedding moved bad.

“Mom and dad of one's bridegroom got offered 60 goats as the dowry towards group of the bride-to-be. However the girl ran from your 1 month adopting the ceremony and you will used having various other child, a very crappy contract,” said Uriana, 42.