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Why do you need
such a large territory to live? Why is this so important for you?
such a large territory to live? Why is this so important for you?
Why is this so important to Waorani?
This is were we collect fruit,
animals, fish, hunt, freely...
where we are eating and living, without dollars.
Because when we go out to the city it costs us money,
it costs us money to be in the city.
Rather the forest than the city,
it gives us good things,
without money.
Like a market we have the forest where the Waorani families
live in the forest, we can collect
catch animals and eat nothing with money
catch animals and eat nothing with money
and that's why we need a forest
in order to be free
What do you think
about the people in the government who are saying
that there are no Taromenani in the territory ITT nor in the block 31?
The government was not born in the Amazonia.
The government was born in Guayaquil.
We, as Amazonian, we claim
that there are living Taromenani there are livining Iwene
We are Amazonian, we are Waorani
We are...
We are Wuaorani specialists We know very well and we manage the jungle
How can they tell us?
There are several that have told us
that there are no living Taromenani of course, the maps can tell us that they are not living, not living
but they are living! The government doesnt know... and has to respect
and give more territory
for Taromenani
the government says the intangible area is their territory
like a cage...
were Taromenani live...
they dont like cages!
they only pass by,
walk from one side to another
Why Taromenani and Waorani being family,
do they kill each other sometimes?
Why does this happen?
It is because of the interests
It is because of the interests
when there is more...
The Waorani people
are collaborating with the petroleum people...
They went to be with lumberman,
and with the Western life.
Then they began to need more money
to be outside (the forest)
So many people died...
Taromenani...
And Ompure´s family...
This day, when Ompure and Buganei died
This day, when Ompure and Buganei died
Why did the government not approach the leaders to solve it ?
Why were the children of Ompure
not taken care of?
When the *** family died,
When the *** family died,
he lost his wife and son
Why did they take care of them? The government gave grants, home, ground
and food for this family, being a settler family
While the Waorani, being from the Amazonia, why did they not take care
of the children of Ompure?
they have not even talked.
You probably have seen many maps of the Yasuní National Park,
which is your home...
and I imagine that when you see such a map
you will have also seen some straight lines that are oil blocks
and there are circles representing Taromenani territory...
and there are circles representing Taromenani territory...
in reality,
in the forest life,
how real are these straight lines of the blocks
and how real are these circles that people of the city draw at a desk?
and how real are these circles that people of the city draw at a desk?
You see, the people of the city
do not know, they have not walked
The ones who say they are biologists, anthropologists,
they say they make maps like crazy,
but why did they not walk in the jungle
with Waorani?
The old or young Waorani...
They are a week in the jungle not eating, why do they not practice?
And yes it worries me as a leader
I will go to their door and say "government walk in the jungle with us one week
without eating"
so the government or the ministeries will also know
Because they say, beautiful, here are some circles and there they live, the Taromenani
and then...
tomorrow we see that this has changed, to another form
In the ministry of justice, Lenin Lara, he is a lyer.
He is from Guayaquil, he should not say,
that of course he is a leader that protects and veils for
the Taromenani.
But he has to know Amazonia before doing maps.
This is very bad for us. Let's go to the jungle! Come for a
week to know,
to see footprints,
to see footprints,
footsteps, signs...
for him to know
In Quito they talk a lot about Taromenani, but do not know the jungle
In Quito they talk a lot about Taromenani, but do not know the jungle
Tell me, What do communities as
Tell me, What do communities as...
Boanamo, Bameno,
Ñoneno...
say, who do not have roads?
They dont want. Penti is the leader of Bameno
The leader of Boanamo is Omayegue
Gabaron and other communities. They say "we do not need oil,
we do not want roads , we do not need these buildings of the city,
we do not want roads , we do not need these buildings of the city,
"because our building is the jungle", they say
"we do not need oil", they say
What do you think, what is your personal position,
not as a leader, but as a Waorani woman?
not as a leader, but as a Waorani woman?
I think, as a woman born in the jungle,
I have to live
with what our grandparents have left us
The hunting or the fishing or the trees
they left for us
With this
I will go on living as a...
woman of the forest And I always will be...
Because if not
my children will not know
what is the jungle.
Formerly, the Waorani did not have diseases The ones who live nearby the roads
already have other diseases
And this is why communites like Bameno, Noneno, Gabaron are concerned
And this is why communites like Bameno, Noneno, Gabaron are concerned
The oil is getting closer,
they send chemicals,
they send contaminated water.
The big river is already contaminated.
We are very worried, how will our children go swimming in the contaminated water of the big river?
We are very worried, how will our children go swimming in the contaminated water of the big river?
We need them to take care. As they say now in the government:
they will bring technologies.
For many years they have said they will manage with cutting edge technologies,
and this is a lie, I do not believe.
Several times they have told us, technologies.
in Repsol...
in the Maxus road...
they told us "new technologies will manage better than before",
but there have been more spills.
How many spills have there been?
Repsol has generated spills?
Yes, spills. And then I said, where is this cutting edge technology?
they are not managing it. This is the Waorani experience,
and that's why I say this is a lie, all is a lie.