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
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People of the Ecuadorian Rainforest
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:
罪罪鍾=罪罪午 罪午罪罪午
6. 1.Geography, history, and the impacts on the
rainforest and its people
1. Geograf鱈a, historia y los impactos en la selva
tropical y su gente.
1. 罪=堰= 罪午
罪罪午 罪罪午鍾罪罪午罪 鍾罪罪罪午罪罪午罪衣 罪午=堰
罪 罪鍾 罪
8. 3. Traditional rainforest medicine: Ayahuasca /
yage
3. Medicina tradicional de la selva tropical:
ayahuasca / yage
3. 罪 罪午罪 罪 - Ayahuasca / yage
9. 4. October 2019 gas subsidy protests
4. Protestas contra la eliminaci坦n de subsidios al
combustible de octubre de 2019
4. 罪 2019
罪潤堰潤堰戟 罪潤堰鍾 罪
10. Questions for you: What rights should indigenous
people have in modern nations?
Preguntas para t鱈: 多Qu辿 derechos deben tener los
pueblos ind鱈genas en las naciones modernas?
罪=潤堰罪罪午潤堰堰罪罪午 罪 -
罪罪罪 罪午潤堰罪 堰罪罪 罪罪午 罪午 罪午罪罪
罪=潤堰罪= 罪午 罪 罪堰罪罪午
11. What happens when one culture meets another
culture?
多Qu辿 sucede cuando una cultura se encuentra
con otra cultura?
罪 罪午鍾罪= 罪午罪 罪午鍾罪堰潤堰潤堰
釈罪
12. Why do some people convert from one religion
to another?
多Por qu辿 algunas personas se convierten de una
religi坦n a otra?
= 潤堰 衣 罪午 罪午罪鍾罪=
罪 罪罪 堰罪罪午
13. Who owns the Amazon jungle?
多A qui辿n pertenece la selva amaz坦nica?
=堰罪 潤堰罪罪午罪衣罪
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)
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)
46. Jatuncocha Lagoon In The Yasun鱈 National Park In
The Ecuadorian Amazon
A Village in Ecuadors 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
Oils Bid To Destroy Millions Of Acres Of
Rainforest
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
#15: Talk here about the conquest of the Americas. Spanish coming. In the 1500s. 1600s Spaniards looking for cinnamon. Anke sehue pai. 1700s, Jesuit missions.
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