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Proto-Ruvu's descendant Lugulu speakers, some time after the eleventh century, innovated or borrowed the word minga for this season of lesser rains.
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In Ecuador, when people in the Indian communities meet to accomplish some task together, like weeding a garden or cleaning around a school, it's called "minga".
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Around 1,000 of the participants in an ongoing indigenous protest -- the National Minga of Indigenous and Popular Resistance ( "minga" is a terms referring to a traditional collective indigenous activity) -- listened to the testimony given at the Senate hearing Thursday.
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Around 1,000 of the participants in an ongoing indigenous protest -- the National Minga of Indigenous and Popular Resistance ( "minga" is a terms referring to a traditional collective indigenous activity) -- listened to the testimony given at the Senate hearing Thursday.
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"minga" demonstrations against the free trade agreement and the Mexican 2006 elections.
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"minga" demonstrations against the free trade agreement and the Mexican 2006 elections.
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In one of the indigenous communities, high up in the mountains, we were fortunate to participate in an age-old tradition called a "minga."
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July 21st, 2006 at 11:31 pm muy bien por estos arquitectos chilenos, barry, in chile minga is a activity of the south of chile chiloe, exactly, where the people move their house over a woods to other places, all their neighbour help them.
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Our translator had explained to us the concept of a "minga."
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_Piaz minga_, I have not a crumb of pleasure in it, &c.
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781
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