The Huaorani are a people born in raised by the forest and family—that is their religion. The idea of worshiping one singular man is preposterous to them. If America is the land of religious freedom, why do some religious leaders believe that they can superimpose their religious ideals on others in other countries? In those areas where the word of God has been heard, the Huaorani are not better off, in fact, they are far from it. Hunger, poverty, and sickness are just some of the ailments in these areas, due to the natives new dependency on cowode abundancia that their new “civil” ways bring. Attempts were even made to include the Huaorani culture in an educational movement that incorporated both the old and the new cultures—to form a “…genuine bilingual, bicultural education” (Kane 141). But it seems that the Christian missionaries do not believe in retaining any shed of the old Huaorani lifestyle—it might impede on the brainwashing of the Huaorani.

Christian missionary groups have been in full force in the Amazon since the beginning of oil drilling. With Rachael Saint at the façade, missionaries have formed a relationship with the Huaorani. They believe that it is their divine duty to convert the Huaorani from their “…dark and demonic…culture” (Kane 40) and make the Huaorani’s lives better through God, Christ, and specialized education. But the relationship between the Huaorani and the missionaries i

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