To kill. Oil workers, loggers, Huaorani, missionaries and other cowori, or outsiders, have all been killed by the spears of the uncontacted tribes since the colonization of the Amazon began.

Initially, the indigenous tribes were the only Ecuadorans affected by the drilling. And though the oil lay under their native land, they weren’t entitled to any of the profits, because the ...

Contact with outsiders often spells doom for isolated tribes, said Stanley Stewart in Condé Nast Traveller (U.K.). But one such tribe in Ecuador’s Amazon rain forest—the Huaorani—is turning ...

‘Savages,’ Joe Kane One of my favorite books is Savages, which follows a Huaorani tribe’s fight against oil companies in the Ecuadorian Amazon.