Oil? Not in Our Dreams Meet the Zápara
As AW partner and fearless leader of the Zápara Women's Assoc. Gloria Ushigua travels to the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to ask that the Zápara be protected, we bring you a glimpse of the only nationality in Ecuador declared a UNESCO cultural patrimony.
The Zápara were once one of the largest indigenous groups in the Ecuadorian Amazon. But by the 1980s anthropologists deemed them extinct, an entire culture erased in less than a century by disease, violence, persecution and assimilation. What most didn't know was that some 200 Zápara remained hidden in the dense jungle...
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