In her new memoir We Will Be Jaguars, Nemonte Nenquimo recounts how she fought Big Oil to preserve her tribe's territories, and thousands of acres of pristine rainforest.
We Will Be Jaguars, written with her partner Mitch Anderson, is Nemonte Nenquimo’s memoir of her life and struggle growing up as a Waorani woman in the Ecuador ian Amazon. After her early childhood in her community in the rainforest and her adolescence spent with evangelical missionaries, Nenquimo moved to Quito.
“Seems to be some problems out in those villages at the end of the road,” he shouted after me. “Better stay away from there.” “That’s where I’m going,” I shouted back, pushing through the stiff cane into the cool green woods. There was no trail that I could see. I walked a short way, then stopped. The forest was trilling and pulsing. I noticed the faint, days-old tracks of an ocelot. A line of leaf-cutter ants. A wasps’ nest. I felt lightheaded.
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