Indigenous activist Nemonte Nenquimo, who grew up in the Amazon rainforest, is telling her story in a new book, entitled ‘We Will Be Jaguars.’ Vogue speaks to Nemonte Nenquimo about her new book
Growing up in Toñampare in the Amazon rainforest during the early ’90s, Nemonte Nenquimo was always among the first to run and greet the planes that began landing in her village. “I was a curious girl, always curious about everything,” she explains via Zoom in Spanish, with her husband Mitch Anderson translating. “I wanted to be the first person to hear the plane and the white people arriving.
“I was intrigued by the work Mitch was doing and wanted to go out and meet other Indigenous communities in Ecuador’s northern Amazon that I didn’t know but had heard about,” she recalls. “It was through this experience, building access to clean water, that we fell in love.” Encountering other Indigenous communities during this time also led to the idea of joining together to rally against the multiple threats they faced.
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