This chapter aims at elaborating on the tension between the Chilean Ministry of Education and the Atacamenean indigenous community The origin of the conflict is the supposedly exclusion of the Ckunza language into the national intercultural education curriculum since the Andean language has been regarded as extinct by the experts who advised the State. However, the Atacameneans have developed their own language policy and planning to counteract the government’s indication. The preliminary results of this literature review inform about the presence of a bottom-up language policy designed and implemented by the Lickan Antai self-organised Language Council that has attempted to reverse language shift since 2010. To conclude, the contribution of this work is expanding the understanding of efforts carried out by indigenous communities of the Americas to revive their indigenous languages as well as their plea for promoting them in their contexts.