As Ray A. Youngbear wrote in Black Eagle Child, “So that a few of us will celebrate and walk the full course of this gift called life, many will suffer.” This NBC video on the indigenous people of the Ecuadorian Amazon — whose destiny is wrapped up in our murderous demand for endless supplies of oil — is heartbreaking.
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