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"Documents the lives of the Huaorani, a small tribe of Ecuadorian Indians who, after 20 years of pressure from foreign oil companies, agreed to allow oil-drilling on their land. Focuses on the introduction of massive environmental pollution and cultural change, and the tribe's subsequent efforts to regain control of their lives and lands."

Cf., Nomads of the Rain Forest
(Huaorani/Waorani Indians of the Amazon in Ecuador; VC 2426, 59 min.)

• Trinkets and Beads: A Film by Christopher Walker
  
  
• INDIGENOUS-ECUADOR: Amazon Tribe's Fight Against Oil Companies
  
  
• Ecuador -- CIA World Facts Book
  
  
• Ecuador Class WebPage
  
  
• [film] End of the Spear (1 hr.51 min., 2005) (film homepage) (Netflix information)
  
  
  
• Huaroni Indians of the Amazon
  
  
• Oil Road Turns Tribes Into Meat Traders -- New Scientist (18 May 2009)
  
  
• Summer Institute of Linguistics (now SIL International)
  
  
• Triumph From Tragedy -- DAVID M. HOWARD JR., The Wall Street Journal (20 January 2006)