A presentation addressing outside impacts on Ecuador's rainforest people, three indigenous nations, the sacred medicine ayahuasca, and the October 2019 clash between indigenous organizations and the national government around the issue of gas subsidies. Delivered at Kansas City Kansas Community College on October 23, 2019. Video link here: https://vimeo.com/368263365

2. A big thank you to Jelena
Ozegovic and the KCKCC
Center for Teaching Excellence
for making this presentation
possible.

3. A further thank you to
Taylor Bolls, KCKCC
Graphic Designer, for
making the lovely
poster, and to Randy
Royer for the
technical support.

4. And a final thank you to the
photographers and photo
subjects whose work and
presences are here with us.

5. Four-part structure of the presentation:
Estructura de cuatro partes de la
presentacion:
တင်ဆက်မှု၏အပိုင််းလ ်းပိုင််း။

6. 1.Geography, history, and the impacts on the
rainforest and its people
1. Geografía, historia y los impactos en la selva
tropical y su gente.
1. ပထဝီဝင်အလေအထ ်း၊
သမိုင််းလ က င််းနှင်မို်းသစ်လတ နှင်၎င််းင််း၏ပပည်သူမ ်းအလပေါ်
သက်လ က်မှုမ ်း

7. 2. Three Amazonian nations: Waorani, Sapara,
Secoya/Siekopai
2. Tres naciones amazónicas: Waorani, Sapara,
Secoya / Siekopai
2. အလမဇုိုေ်နိုင်ငသသသို်းနိုင်ငသ - Waorani, Sapara, Secoya /
Siekopai

8. 3. Traditional rainforest medicine: Ayahuasca /
yage
3. Medicina tradicional de la selva tropical:
ayahuasca / yage
3. ရို်း မို်းသစ်လတ လဆ်း - Ayahuasca / yage

9. 4. October 2019 gas subsidy protests
4. Protestas contra la eliminación de subsidios al
combustible de octubre de 2019
4. လအ က်တိုဘ 2019
သဘ ဝဓ တ်လငွေွေ့လထ က်ပသလငွေဆနဒပပမှုမ ်း

10. Questions for you: What rights should indigenous
people have in modern nations?
Preguntas para tí: ¿Qué derechos deben tener los
pueblos indígenas en las naciones modernas?
သင်အတွေက်လမ်းခွေေ််းမ ်း -
လခတ်သစ်နိုင်ငသမ ်းတွေင်ဌ လေတိုင််း င််းသ ်းမ ်းသည်မည်သ
ည်အခွေင်အလ ်းမ ်း သင်သေည််း။

11. What happens when one culture meets another
culture?
¿Qué sucede cuando una cultura se encuentra
con otra cultura?
ယဉ်လက ်းမှုတစ်ခိုကအပခ ်းယဉ်လက ်းမှုတစ်ခိုေလတွေွေ့ င်
ဘ ပြစ်မ ။

12. Why do some people convert from one religion
to another?
¿Por qué algunas personas se convierten de una
religión a otra?
အခ ွေ့ ူမ ်းကဘ သ တ ်းတစ်ခိုမှတစ်ခိုသိုအဘယ်
လ က င်လပပ င််း ကသေည််း။

13. Who owns the Amazon jungle?
¿A quién pertenece la selva amazónica?
အလမဇုိုေ်လတ တွေင််းကိုဘယ်သူပိုင်သ

19. Impacts from outside
Early Spanish explorers looking for gold
and cinnamon (1500s-1600s)
Imported diseases (1500s-now)
Jesuit missionaries (1700s)
The rubber boom (Early 1900s)

20. Impacts from outside
Petroleum / oil exploitation (Mid-1900s –
now)
Evangelical missionaries (Mid-1900s -
now)
Ecotourism (Late 1900s – now)
Palm oil (Late 1900s-now)

27. Three of the indigenous nations of the
Ecuadorian Amazon
Waorani (“Auca”)
Sapara
Secoya / Siekopai

28. Waorani (“Auca”), the wildest ones

30. Operation Auca, January 8, 1956
“He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain
that which he cannot lose.“ – Jim Elliot

32. Rachel Saint
and Dayuma

33. "We acted badly, badly, until they brought us God's carvings (the
Bible). Then, seeing His carvings and following His good trail, now we
live happily and in peace.“ – Mincaye (with Steve Saint)

44. Yuca / cassava / manioc (Manihot esculenta)

46. Jatuncocha Lagoon In The Yasuní National Park In
The Ecuadorian Amazon
A Village in Ecuador’s Amazon Fights for Life as Oil
Wells Move In (Natural Resources Defense Council, 2018)

63. “In a landmark victory, the Waorani people of Pastaza, an indigenous tribe from the Ecuadorian Amazon,
successfully protected half a million acres of their ancestral territory in the Amazon rainforest from being
mined for oil drilling by Big Oil companies.” (VT.co, May 18, 2019)
Amazon Tribe Wins Lawsuit, Blocks Big
Oil’s Bid To Destroy Millions Of Acres Of
Rainforest

64. Sapara: Once were warriors

73. Secoya / Siekopai: The Multicolored People

103. THE PEOPLE
WHO ARE
VIOLENT
ARE THOSE
WHO
PROVOKE
SOCIAL
INEQUALITY
NOT
THOSE
WHO
STRUGGLE
AGAINST
THEM.

113. Any questions?

114. Sources (partial)
 https://hablemosdeculturas.com
 https://www.captain-planet.net/amazon-tribe-wins-lawsuit-blocks-big-oils-
bid-to-destroy-millions-of-acres-of-
rainforest/?fbclid=IwAR2JioLRVQ_RSK7vtYVCJIBRYYC6lzkKDKDf1xv8SO172
pm2gtUWgpHJV6E
 Photo of Lenin Moreno by Agencia de Noticias ANDES -
https://www.flickr.com/photos/agenciaandes_ec/33007672963/, CC BY-SA
2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=58185289
 https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/village-ecuadors-amazon-fights-life-oil-
wells-move Lou Dematteis/Redux, Steven Bloom Images/Alamy, Pete
Oxford, Ondrej Zaruba/CTK/AP

115. Sources (partial)
 https://www.etsy.com/listing/267342037/sweet-edible-cassava-yuca-stem-
cutting?gpla=1&gao=1&utm_campaign=shopping_us_CheriesHomeGrow
n_sfc_osa&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_custom1=0&ut
m_content=12506064&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6KrtBRDLARIsAKzvQIHijUUa2TaHPl
ORbgsx41-HoM9qXRJN4PgnFTLZwxleSAPfuAQ5z1caAhjsEALw_wcB
 Siekopai photos by Manuel Pallares