The Huaorani people called Waorani and are the Indigenous Indians that live in the Amazon region of Ecuador country in South America. The Huaorani community is composed of five groups namely; the Tagaeri , the Huinatare, the Onamenane, and the two groups of the Taromenane. Today there’s about 2000 of them living and thriving in the rainforest. They are foragers and a horticultural society. Foragers hunt for food and pick berries and fruits. “Horticulture is planting crops without modern day agricultural methods such as fertilizers and plows”(Laird & Nowak, 2010) The men hunt for meat and the women collect fruit and berries but they also plant crops no matter where they go. They are a tribe that likes to stay away from the outside world, so outsiders are not welcomed in unless they welcome in. Going on their territory could threaten them and they could react by using force of their own. Even though some of the rainforest has been compromised by oil rigs they have areas that they live on, but they continue to live their life the way they want too. In my research paper I will discuss the Huaorani of the Amazon by examining critical factors like cultural lifestyle, religious beliefs, kinship gender roles and relations in addition to some other factors to educate the reader about this unique cultural group.
The Waorani spend a lot of their time clearing forest and growing manioc, plantains, peach palms, peanuts and sweet potatoes. The women harvest the food on a daily routine depending on the need. The men have cleared an area so the women grow a garden. Another area is cleared so the women can take the stalks of some of the harvested plants and replant to have another garden growing. Once they have used up the soil in that area they find another spot to grow. They do this so the ground has time to heal and they will be able to plant there again whenever they return to that area. Typically a garden will be eaten up in a few months and the family then...