The indigenous Shuar, native to Ecuador and Peru, have been portrayed as headhunting savages. This tribe no longer performs the ritual of shrinking heads, a practice largely misunderstood. Although ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. A temporary replacement for Wachapá was put in place after he was detained on December 21 during a raid on his organization’s headquarters. Wachapá ...
Shuar group in the park of Logroño, Ecuador. Wikimedia Commons/Jlh249. Some rights reserved. According to the Ecuadorian philosopher Bolívar Echeverría, modern ...
Morona-Santiago, Ecuador – The death of a police officer during a standoff between military and indigenous Shuar people in a takeover attempt of a mining camp in Ecuador’s southern Amazon on December ...
The body of an indigenous leader who was opposed to a major mining project in Ecuador has been found bound and buried, days before he planned to take his campaign to climate talks in Lima. The killing ...
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Ecuador’s National System of Protected Areas now includes the 5,497-hectare (13,583-acre) ancestral Tiwi Nunka Forest in the country’s south. The Shuar Indigenous community of El Kiim, with the help ...
Elevated immune function during childhood results in as much as 49 percent growth reduction in Ecuador's indigenous Shuar population, researchers report. Elevated immune function during childhood ...