For a long time, studies on Indigenous dance did not receive the attention they were due, despite the fact that society has a very real duty to preserve and learn from Indigenous culture and ethics. More recently it has generated more and more interest in the United States, though still at a slow pace. Even though we are living through a difficult reckoning of the effects of systemic racism, and there has been a failure to recognize that we live in a modern culture determined in many ways by the “foundations of a Pre-Columbian past” (Bush, 2011, p .ii), attempts are being made to dis- colonize the customs guiding our ways of life. Along these lines our investigation into the teaching of Peruvian indigenous dance to non-Indigenous students has also researched and analyzed its great benefits, asking Why is the language of dance important? Who are the indigenous peoples? What are the indigenous dances? and Why is dance education important?