AHC Majority indigenous Peru by the 2000? Pod after Independence.

EnvarKadri

The Bolivian census of 2001 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivians#Ethnic_groups) showed:
60% Indigenous 26% Mestizo and almost 13% white. While the 2017 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruvians#Ethnic_structure_of_Peru , couldn't find one from the 2000's) Peruvian census give us: 24% indigenous, 60% mestizo and almost 6% white.
Also only 15% (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruvians#Languages) of Peru's population is a native speaker of an indigenous language, contrasting with 43% of Bolivia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Bolivia#Demographics). Interesting how the numbers of natives and mestizos in Peru an Bolivia are flipped. How can we get Peruvian population to be closer in % (both in self identification and language) to the Bolivian one?
 

SenatorErnesto

Keep the same demographics; just change the perception of indígena identidad.

Some sort of cultural revolution, that makes being indigenous mean Peruvian a la the ideas Marti had about the importance of Latin American institutions.

Have indigenous languages taught in schools, become the language of laws and tv and radio. Soon enough many more indigenous who check the mestizo box out of ingrained colonial racism will check indigenous, and many more mestizo will adopt that they are indigenous rather than a mix.
 
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Mightyboosh5

i think during independance war it was possible
the early rebellions looked somehwat like the early mexica revolts, full of indian rebels and iconography, had these not been surpressed and if it stayed unified with bolivia there could be a cultural revolution during the 19th centiry that brought quechua back into a widespread written language, thats what it would take to make a majority indigenous peru in my opinion
 
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