We will be jaguars : a memoir of my people / Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson.
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TextPublisher: New York : Abrams Press, 2024Description: 360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781419763779
- 1419763776
- Nenquimo, Nemonte
- Indians of South America
- Indigenous peoples -- Ecuador
- Political activists -- Ecuador
- Minority women activists -- Ecuador
- Political activists -- Ecuador -- Biography
- Huao Indians -- Biography
- Indigenous peoples -- Ecuador -- Biography
- Indians of South America -- Biography
- Minority women activists -- Ecuador -- Biography
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"Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest--one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s--Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing. Two decades later, Nemonte has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in climate change activism. She has spearheaded the alliance of indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against Big Oil, protecting over a half million acres of primary rainforest. Her message is as sharp as a spear--honed by her experiences battling loggers, miners, oil companies and missionaries"--