Translating Worlds, Defending Land Collaborations for Indigenous Rights and Environmental Politics in Amazonia By Casey High Stanford University Press, 2025 In 2019, after decades of ecological damage from oil, Waorani people took to the streets of Amazonian Ecuador to protest drilling on their ancestral lands. Working with international activists,...
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Alexandra Reichert Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2022-2023 Indigeneity and Interculturalidad: Generating Indigenous Knowledge Exchange to Improve Birth Care in Kichwa and Waorani Communities This project will investigate understandings and practices about birth in two distinct Indigenous groups in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Kichwa...
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COVID-19: an existential threat for Indigenous peoples of the Amazon Theodor Borrmann, PreventionWeb 7-21-20 “The guardians of the forests are in danger!”, Tuntiak Katan observes at the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak. His warning still echoes and reverberates in my head. Over the last three months, the coronavirus...
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Coronavirus en Ecuador: así hacen frente al coronavirus los indígenas de la Amazonía (y cómo se preparan para una postpandemia de hambre, desempleo y trueque) Matías Zibell, BBC News Mundo, Ecuador 5-26-2020 Cuando la antropóloga Andrea Bravo, estudiosa de la nacionalidad indígena huaorani, ingresó en el Parque Nacional...
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Ecuador: COVID-19 llega a los indígenas waorani mientras que otros pueblos enfrentan nuevos problemas Antonio José Paz Cardona 5-20-20 Hay dos casos confirmados de COVID-19 en la comunidad waorani de Miwaguno. Por lo menos 10 personas presentan síntomas asociados y un anciano murió pero no se le realizó...
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DENUNCIA PÚBLICA: Primeros casos de COVID-19 en territorio Waorani cerca de los pueblos indígenas en aislamiento voluntario. Resistencia Waorani, Facebook 5-17-2020 La comunidad Waorani de Miwaguno denuncia a través de este medio, que estamos en riesgo con 2 casos de COVID-19 detectados el día 13 de Mayo a...
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