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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.
Alicia Cawiya (given name Hueiya) is the vice-president of the National Waorani Federation (NAWE) and one of the founders of the Asociación de Mujeres Waorani del Ecuador (Ecuador Waorani Women Association). Bibanca (born c. 1940) was Mincaye's younger sister. She was killed by an anaconda while sitting in a canoe. [5] Dawa (born c. 1935) is ...
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 ...
“I’ve often thought that it must be easy to destroy what you don’t understand,” says Nemonte Nenquimo, the first woman president of the Waorani people of Pastaza, in eastern Ecuador.She's ...
Nearby Kichwa communities sometimes refer to them as Awashiri, or "high-ground people". They live a hunting and foraging lifestyle and have resisted outside contact, making them one of the so-called uncontacted peoples of the world. In addition to Tagaeri, the area is home to their kin, the Taromenane, another eastern Waorani group.
The Waorani people, an Indigenous group whose territory overlaps Yasuni National Park, and others are frustrated by the lack of compliance with the referendum. “We should already have advanced results, with the closures almost 100% complete, but the government has not committed to that,” said Juan Bay, president of the main Waorani ...
Waorani of Pastaza vs. Ecuadorian State was a 2019 court case filed against the Ecuadorian State by indigenous communities of the Amazon rainforest regions. The CONCONAWEP (Coordinating Council of the Waorani Nationality of Ecuador-Pastaza) filed a suit in the Pastaza Provincial Court alleging that the Ecuadorian government was selling Waorani indigenous land for oil drilling without proper ...
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 ...