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Who are the Waorani?

They are a tribe in the Ecuadorian rain forest.

They have a traditional culture and most have remained untouched by modern society.

Similar to the Archaic Native people of America

Their Way of Life

The Waoroni live a very traditional lifestyle like many other native tribes.

The diet of the Waoroni consists heavily of monkey meat and birds.

The Waoroni live in large huts made of palm leaves and trunks.

They have no social divisions, men, women, and children are all socially equal.

WAORANI TRIBE

Fun Fact:

~The Waorani people can also be called Haorani, Waodani, and Waos.

This small yellow area is where the Waorani Tribe lives

Waorani Religion They believe the world is a five mile flat disc. Waengongi was the original creator of

everything; he was not revered or feared until he became identified with the Christian God.

They have two religious leaders: The jaguar father and the jaguar mother.

They shared a creationistic view with the native Americans of Georgia.

Now to; how the Waorani Tribe are being kicked off their own land.

The Waorani people have lived in Ecuador since the pre-historic period.

They should not have to leave their land due to the fact that they have been occupying the land for thousands of years. The same thing happened to the Native Americans, thousands of years ago.

Peaceful Contact

It took over a decade until peaceful contact with the Waorani people was made.

Nate Saint found a way to deliver gifts to the Waorani tribe. He would tie a canvas bucket to the end of a very long rope, put gifts in it, then he would fly his plane in a circle above the Waorani village.

Peaceful Contact continued

The gift drops continued for weeks. On November 12, 1955, the Waorani

people returned a headband as a gift. Nate Saint, Jim Elliott, Pete Fleming, Ed McCully, and Roger Youderian took the gift as an invitation, and started to plan a contact expedition.

The Contact Exploration They decided to land their small plane

on a sand bar called “Palm Beach” by the river Curaray, which was only 4 miles from the Waoroni village. The 5 missionaries camped out on the sand bar and waited for members of the Waoroni tribe to come see them.

Curaray River

The Death of the Missionaries

As a result of the attempted contact Waoroni Tribe, five men went down to the sand bar were the plane had landed and speared the missionaries.

Exploration for Oil

The exploration for oil in the Waorani Territory in the early 1940’s.

The oil companies soon ran into large problems with the Waorani people due to their hostility and violence.

12 Shell employees where speared by the Waorani people by 1949.

Similar to early explorers search for gold

The Waorani Tribe is facing terrible outcomes from the Ecuadorian government. The Ecuadorian President, Rafael Correa, has decided that on November 28, 2013 oil drilling will begin in Yasuni National Park. The Waoroni Tribe will lose their land when this happens. An example of a situation like this is the Early American Explorers and the Native Americans. The Native Americans had been living in the Americas for thousands of years, when the explorers came and took their land and killed most of them with disease. Don’t these two situations sound similar?

How do you think you can help prevent the Waorani

Tribe from being kicked off their

land?

Resources/Sited Sources:

https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/mailalert/896/no-oil-drilling-in-the-amazon-rainforest

http://www.lastrefuge.co.uk/data/articles/waorani/waorani_page1.htm

http://amazonwatch.org/news/2013/0716-ecuador-pushes-bid-deadline-for-11th-oil-licensing-round-to-nov.-28

Resources/Sited Sources: http://www.prehensileproductions.com/

defendingeden/storyBackground.html

http://www.everyculture.com/South-America/Waorani-Religion-and-Expressive-Culture.html

Specially Cited:

http://www.globalexpeditions.com/

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