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The Waorani, Waodani, or Huaorani, also known as the Waos, are an Indigenous people from the Amazonian Region of Ecuador (Napo, Orellana, and Pastaza Provinces) who have marked differences from other ethnic groups from Ecuador.
Dayuma was helpful in teaching the Waorani language to the missionaries. Dayuma was the first known Waorani to convert to Christianity. She eventually moved back to live with her people along with Rachel Saint and Elisabeth Elliot. [citation needed] Epa (born ca. 1935) was Nenkiwi's oldest living wife. According to custom, she killed her ...
She depicts the early beginnings of the arrival of white people, known as cowori, who came in search of “black gold” within the Waorani land. Nenquimo remembers how they first brought Coca ...
Nemonte Nenquimo is an Indigenous activist, author and member of the Waorani Nation from the Amazonian Region of Ecuador.She is the first female president of the Waorani of Pastaza (CONCONAWEP), co-founder of the Indigenous-led nonprofit organization Ceibo Alliance, and co-founder of the nonprofit Amazon Frontlines, which works to protect the Amazon rainforest, protect its biodiversity, and ...
The Union of People Affected by the Petroleum Operations of Texaco, which tracks oil spills, said the Ecuadorian Amazon saw an average of 10 spills a month from 2016 to 2021, said Donald Moncayo, a coordinator with the group. Bay, the Waorani leader, will lead a delegation to the Ecuadorian capital to speak to Congress on Friday.
Researchers working with the indigenous Waorani people captured and studied several specimens of the newly named northern green anaconda (Eunectes akayima) in the Bameno region of Baihuaeri ...
Operation Auca was an attempt by five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States to bring Christianity to the Waorani or Huaorani people of the rain forest of Ecuador. The Waorani, also known pejoratively as Aucas (a modification of awqa , the Quechua word for ' savages '), were an isolated tribe known for their violence, against ...
The Waorani (Huaorani) language, commonly known as Sabela (also Wao, Huao, Auishiri, Aushiri, Ssabela ; autonym: Wao Terero; pejorative: Auka, Auca) is a vulnerable language isolate spoken by the Waorani people, an indigenous group living in the Amazon rainforest between the Napo and Curaray Rivers in Ecuador.