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with a force of some 20,000 men, later to be joined by other 80,000. The city is located on an enclosed valley with limited access, and the siege was able to completely block all movement to and from the city. During this time, Sisa organised military camps around all the mountain passes that led to
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and their army maintained the siege for 184 days, from March to June and from August to
October. Sisa was a commander of the siege, and played the crucial role following Katari's capture in April. After almost 190 days of siege, it was finally broken by a Spanish reinforcement force arriving from
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Honouring the date of her death, the
International Day of Indigenous Women is celebrated every 5 September since 1983 in Bolivia. Bartolina Sisa is often the name used by many indigenous organisations in Bolivia, such as the
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organisation for indigenous and peasant women, with the aim of improving the participation of indigenous and rural women in the political, social and economic decisions of
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the city and acted as main command of the indigenous forces. On 21 May, a
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were joined together in their ideals of indigenous empowerment and managed to gather around 150,000 indigenous, mostly
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Bartolina Sisa was captured and executed by the
Spanish on September 5, 1782. She was hanged after being publicly humiliated in the La Paz's Main Square (now
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Bartolina Sisa, her husband and other indigenous leaders like José Gabriel
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rule, which later motivated her to join her husband leading indigenous militias across the
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and worked in the production of woven goods. As it was common for peasant families of the region, she traveled across the
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selling the goods produced by her family. Also in Sica Sica lived Julián Apaza, later to be known as
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friar Matías
Balderrama, Sisa was thin, of medium height, comely appearance and great intelligence.
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