Much of Colombia's Andean highlands once belonged to the Guambiano Indians. Herded first onto reservations by the Conquistadors, and then thrown off those lands by ensuing governments, the story of the Guambianos is the story of a people and culture trying to survive.

GUAMBIANOS presents the texture of the people's daily lives in episodes - a day at school, going to the market, a wedding and a funeral, as well as life on a cooperative based on traditional work patterns, created by the Guambianos to maintain a viable agricultural community and regain lost land.

"Beautifully filmed and edited... a highly interesting ethnography...the filmmakers were able to capture in a natural way the feeling of life."—Elizabeth Weatherford, Native Americans on Film and Video