Luis Garcia Falcon Winner of the Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund 2023-2024 Napo Gold Rush: Perceptions and Responses to Mining in the Ecuadorian Amazon Since 2017, Ecuador has had three consecutive center-right governments who have continued to promote Ecuador's extractive industries as the future of its development...
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Amazonian Quichua Language and Life Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo,Ecuador By Janis B. Nuckolls and Tod D. Swanson Lexington Books, 2020 In Amazonian Quichua Language and Life: Introduction to Grammar, Ecology, and Discourse from Pastaza and Upper Napo, Ecuador, Janis B. Nuckolls and...
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Triple crisis of pipelines, pesticides and pandemic is an existential threat to Ecuador’s indigenous peoples Mitch Anderson 6-5-20 Days after Ecuador declared a state of emergency for COVID-19, the Secoya people’s principal fishing river, the Shushufindi, was poisoned by a massive pesticide runoff from nearby African palm plantations,...
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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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Napo Runa Kichwa people relief campaign Salsa 4-27-2020 This fundraiser has been organized by a PhD student in the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is coordinating the campaign to support the elders, single mom and children in need of FOIN...
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