The "pollera," a bell skirt with layered petticoats, is the traditional dress of Indigenous women in Bolivia's highlands.

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In 2022, we published a photo story about an unusual group of skateboarders. The young Bolivian women who founded Imilla Skate do their heel flips and backslides in polleras — colorful, layered skirts ...

Bolivia's emblematic Cholitas fashion show returned on Friday, for an annual display designed to promote the Andean style and beauty of Aymara women. (AP video by Carlos Guerrero) 'SNL' Casts Trump ...

(LA PAZ, Bolivia) — Polonia Ana Choque Silvestre, better known by her stage name of Carmen Rosa, was one of Bolivia’s first female wrestlers. At 49, she is a grandmother and unlike many scantily clad ...

ILLIMANI, Bolivia (Reuters) - For years, Lydia Huayllas, 48, has worked as a cook at base camps and mountain-climbing refuges on the steep, glacial slopes of Huayna Potosi, a 19,974-foot (6,088-meter) ...

Remigia Ferrel Vallejos, a Bolivian union executive from Chimoré, in the coca-grower Chapare region, isn’t nostalgic for the old days. “Before there was a lot of fatalism. Many times, in meetings I ...

For many, this coexistence of American patriotism and Indigenous pride may seem contradictory Naomi Skiles Members of the Native American Women Warriors, the nation’s first all-women Native American ...

Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, recalled a Native mother in her 30s who started having memory loss and other dementia-like symptoms. The woman had suffered multiple ...