2004-09-03 04:00:00 PDT Tiguino, Ecuador-- Penti Baihua, a community leader of the Huaorani Indians, knew there was more to the massacre of 26 members of a rival Amazon tribe than mere revenge. In May ...

AbstractIn the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Huaorani are the indigenous group most recently assimilated into the country's social, political, and economic order. With vast reserves of oil located under ...

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QUITO, Ecuador – Seismic explorations planned by Chinese oil company Sinopec have led the Ecuadorian eco-tourism company, Tropic, to close the internationally recognized and award-winning Huaorani E ...

Contact with outsiders often spells doom for isolated tribes, said Stanley Stewart in Condé Nast Traveller (U.K.). But one such tribe in Ecuador’s Amazon rain forest—the Huaorani—is turning to ...

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