Marc Becker is professor of Latin American history at Truman State University. His research focuses on constructions of race, class, and gender within popular movements in the South American Andes. He is a co-founder of NativeWeb, the premier Internet site on Indigenous peoples, and the Ecuadorian Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). He has lived, worked, studied, and traveled broadly throughout Latin America.

“In this timely contribution to Latin American history and the study of Indigenous South Americans, Marc Becker documents the long history of Indigenous political activism in Ecuador, reminding us that current events never spring into existence without historical precedent. The impressive amount of new documentary evidence he provides makes this a book that will be immediately read and discussed, and then debated for years to come.”