QUECHUA: pukakunka
QUECHUA: "¡Manañam kunanmanta wakchakayniykiwan wiraqocha mikhunqañachu¡"
++ ) lit., "redneck" — an Inca term for the Castilian Spaniards, dating fr. late 17th.
& 18th. c. insurgencies.
+++ ) "From now on, no more shall Spaniards feast on our poverty!" — attributed
to Inca Tuba Amaru II, who ran an Inca state in the remote Andes, from which
he declared war on the occupying Spaniards — speech circa 1780.
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