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Penti Baihua Interview Part 2/5This forum post is dated 08/30/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it.
| Penti Baihua Interview Part 2/5 There are around 2000 Huaorani in existence today. Their native lands are only a fraction of the size that they once were. Along the Via Tigüino, Colonist owned houses and farms are carved out of forest that once belonged to the Huaorani. Missionaries have made inroads into Huaorani culture, converting and relocating a large number of the population. Many of the young Huaorani are learning Spanish. In many cases, oil companies and missionaries create divisions among the Huaorani. Though many Huaorani are proud of their culture and resist change, others have given in to outside pressure and no longer live traditional lifestyles. Thus, each Huaorani community is like its own sovereign nation state; the Huaorani of the Western Orient in some cases only resemble the Huaorani of the Eastern Orient in name. In one of the most remote regions of the Ecuadorian Amazon is the 758051-hectare area of rainforest known as the "Intangible Zone." It is an area of jungle about the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. Inside the zone, there exists at least three Huaorani communities: Bameno, Gabaro and Bowanamo. The zone is supposed to be a refuge, void of any and all activity having to do with petroleum excavation and logging. This has not been and continues not to be the case. The people of the Intangible Zone though are still living life styles that resemble those of their ancestors. The hunting is still good; the people chant; they dance and though their culture is changing <b>...</b> |
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