Piatsaw: The Resistance of the Indigenous Nations of Ecuadorian Amazon
By Pamela Cruz. Terra 360. In the Ecuadorian Amazon, where oil runs beneath the earth and mercury poisons the rivers, the rainforest is not landscape: it is memory, it is law, it is spirit. There, Indigenous nations—Shuar, Achuar, Cofán, Waorani, Kichwa, Sápara—are not merely defending hectares threatened by mining and oil concessions, but the possibility…