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    The Waorani, Waodani, or Huaorani, also known as the Waos, are an Indigenous people from the Amazonian Region of Ecuador (Napo, Orellana, and Pastaza Provinces)...
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  • Nate Saint (category American people murdered abroad)
    four others, was killed in Ecuador while attempting to evangelize the Huaorani people through efforts known as Operation Auca. Saint was born in 1923. When...
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  • Jim Elliot (category American people murdered abroad)
    Christian missionary and one of five people killed during Operation Auca, an attempt to evangelize the Huaorani people of Ecuador. Elliot was born in Portland...
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    to convert to Christianity. She eventually moved back to live with her people along with Rachel Saint and Elisabeth Elliot.[citation needed] Epa (born...
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    isolated Indigenous peoples of Ecuador live in the Amazon region: the Tagaeri and the Taromenane. Both are eastern Huaorani peoples living in Yasuni National...
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  • Rachel Saint (category People from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania)
    Gospel of Mark and the book of Acts into the Wao tededo language of the Huaorani people. Rachel Saint was born in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. She attended the Philadelphia...
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  • Dayuma (category Huaorani people)
    Dayuma (also Dayumae) (born ca. 1930, - March 1, 2014) was a member of the Huaorani tribe and a citizen of Ecuador. She is a central figure in the Operation...
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    with indigenous Huaorani people, who consider the anaconda sacred, in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The 10-day expedition, organized with Huaorani leader Penti...
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  • The Waorani (Huaorani) language, commonly known as Sabela (also Wao, Huao, Auishiri, Aushiri, Ssabela ; autonym: Wao Terero; pejorative: Auka, Auca) is...
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  • Ed McCully (category American people murdered abroad)
    other missionaries, was killed while attempting to evangelize the Huaorani people, through efforts known as Operation Auca. McCully was the second oldest...
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  • Nemonte Nenquimo (category Huaorani people)
    In 2020, she was named in the Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world, the only Indigenous woman on the list and the second Ecuadorian...
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  • A pejorative name for the native Huaorani people in Ecuador Operation Auca, an endeavor to evangelize the Huaorani tribe Auca (genus), a genus of butterflies...
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  • Aucas, Quito - Auca (Quechuan for savage) is pejorative name for the Huaorani people Paraguay Club Guaraní, Asunción South Africa Kaizer Chiefs F.C., Johannesburg...
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    Operation Auca (category Huaorani)
    missionaries from the United States to bring Christianity to the Waorani or Huaorani people of the rain forest of Ecuador. The Waorani, also known pejoratively...
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    Canelo and the Quijos), the Shuar, the Huaorani, the Siona-Secoya, the Cofán, and the Achuar. In 1986, Indigenous peoples formed the first "truly" national...
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  • Mincaye (category Huaorani people)
    [citation needed] In 1958, missionaries made peaceful contact with the Huaorani tribe. They came to live with them, learned their language, and taught...
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  • Pete Fleming (category American people murdered abroad)
    while participating in Operation Auca, an attempt to evangelize the Huaorani people of Ecuador. Fleming was born in Seattle, Washington. At Queen Anne...
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  • Roger Youderian (category American people murdered abroad)
    along with four others, was killed while attempting to evangelize the Huaorani people through efforts known as Operation Auca. Youderian was born in Sumatra...
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    Auca and depicted in the film End of the Spear, to give gifts to the Huaorani people of Ecuador where there was no landing strip. Later some mail services...
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  • 2 "Rainforest Masters" July 24, 2014 (2014-07-24) Audel joins the Huaorani people in the Amazon region of Ecuador. He is taught the basic lessons of...
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    Alicia Cawiya (category Huaorani people)
    Alicia Cawiya or Cahuiya is the vice-president of the Huaorani Nation of Ecuador and one of the leaders of the movement against oil exploitation in her...
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    of social structure among the converts has also been a concern. The Huaorani people of Amazonian Ecuador have had a well-documented mixed relation with...
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  • missionaries were murdered when they attempted to contact the isolated Huaorani people in Ecuador, the novel centres on the perspective of the men's wives...
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  • Elisabeth Elliot (category People from Franconia, New Hampshire)
    1956 while attempting to make missionary contact with the Auca people (now known as Huaorani; also rendered as Waorani or Waodani) of eastern Ecuador. She...
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  • Tagaeri (category Huaorani)
    The Tagaeri are an eastern Waorani people living in Yasuni National Park, in the Ecuadorian Amazon Basin, named after one of their members, Tagae. Nearby...
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  • Taromenane (category Huaorani)
    Ecuador Bars Oil Extraction, Logging from Indigenous Zone Uncontacted: A field study of the Huaorani and their still uncontacted neighbors the Taromenane...
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  • Joe Kane (category Date of birth missing (living people))
    Time. In 1991, Kane traveled to Ecuador to learn about the indigenous Huaorani people and their struggles with international oil companies who were exploiting...
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  • with Nate Saint, Pete Fleming, Roger Youderian and Jim Elliot, by the Huaorani people, during "Operation Auca," in the jungles of Ecuador, South America...
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    Paul Rivet (category People from Ardennes (department))
    Rivet became interested in the indigenous peoples, beginning an ethnographic study of the Huaorani people of the Ecuadorian Amazon, then known as the...
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