Trinkets and Beads

(53 min., 1996, VC 2840)

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"Documents the lives of the Huaorani, a small tribe of Ecuadorian Indians who, after 20 years of pressure from foreign oil companies, agreed to allow oil-drilling on their land. Focuses on the introduction of massive environmental pollution and cultural change, and the tribe's subsequent efforts to regain control of their lives and lands."

Cf., Nomads of the Rain Forest
(Huaorani/Waorani Indians of the Amazon in Ecuador; VC 2426, 59 min.)

Trinkets and Beads: A Film by Christopher Walker

INDIGENOUS-ECUADOR: Amazon Tribe's Fight Against Oil Companies

Ecuador -- CIA World Facts Book

Huaroni Indians of the Amazon

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