The history of European contact with indigenous groups in other parts of the world has few happy endings. What Alan Moorehead called “the fatal impact” of those encounters led to centuries of ...

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~ "End of the Spear" is about the murder of five missionaries and the tribe's redemption. Dianne Becker's travels have taken her far from the small town of Williamsville, Mo., in Wayne County where ...

DPhil Candidate in the Department of International Development, University of Oxford Ecuador’s presidential election will go to a second round after the current president, Daniel Noboa, and the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Following 80 years of displacement, Indigenous Siekopai communities gained ownership of Amazonian land on Ecuador’s border with Peru. The ...

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* Indigenous tribes have ousted past Ecuadorean leaders * Groups say bill would rob tribes of control over water By Alexandra Valencia QUITO, May 6 (Reuters) - Police fired tear gas at Ecuadorean ...

ESMERALDAS, Ecuador, September 15 (UNHCR) - The Epera have never really understood or recognized the formal border between Colombia and Ecuador. They are an indigenous people who have always lived in ...

The lawyers said that the Ecuador government’s suit on 20 July, accusing the US supermajor of hiding information about the magnitude of contamination to streams and rivers during the company's oil ...

Smithsonian Folkways: FE 4375; F-4375 on container. Music of the Huarani, Colorado, Cayapa, Cofan, Siona, and Secoya tribes of Ecuador. Recorded by David Blair Stiffler. Program notes with ...

Ecuadorians voted on Sunday to stop an oil-drilling project in the Yasuni region of the Amazon with 59% voting yes on a proposition that will end the practice. Ecuador’s government estimates that 1.67 ...