Know more about ‘I am mother, leader, warrior of the Amazon’: Nemonte Nenquimo on why the west needs to be rescued, why they need our donation
The Waorani leader says millennia of living in harmony with their surroundings give Indigenous groups unique insights into the consumerist west Every Waorani child knows the story of the boa’s mouth. How the snake inches forward, watching, its movements almost imperceptible, before it strikes, swallowing its victim whole. Nemonte Nenquimo knows the boa’s bite. Beguiled as a young girl by the blue eyes and bright dresses of an American missionary child in her Amazon village in Ecuador , she conse
Source : The Guardian