She is fighting against her country and against oil companies to save thousands of hectares of the Amazon rainforest. Meet Nemo, a member of the Waorani tribe in Ecuador.
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00:00Here, happy with the pot, here, happy with the pot, here, happy with the pot.
00:06The children have to sing that voice, and you can hear the voices of nature,
00:10if you send the sun.
00:12It's a traditional myth, that's why my mom says,
00:16sing so that the sun comes out.
00:30These are the trees of very old primaries,
00:33that have never been cut,
00:35that have never been cut,
00:37those of nature itself,
00:39this pambil, huayacán, laurel, cedar.
00:43That jungle is very green,
00:45they never cut it, they don't burn it,
00:47they don't destroy it to put cattle,
00:49it's like untouchable.
00:51For us, that jungle gives life.
00:53You say, ah, like a noise,
00:55Now?
00:57Yes.
00:59Here it's full of jaguars,
01:01it's like, phew, a lot.
01:03I don't know,
01:05like something is ringing there,
01:07ah, ah, like,
01:09I think the jaguar of nature
01:11is already smelling us,
01:13the smell that we have another smell.
01:15It's like, we have to go,
01:17get out of here.
01:19Look, there are no trees,
01:21they are cut from this road,
01:23from this cattle ranch,
01:25we are not going to allow it
01:27in our urban territory to pass.
01:50Let's go!
02:10I haven't seen my guacamayo either.
02:13Where is it?
02:15Where is it?
02:17Give me the bread, give me the bread.
02:19Who wants bread?
02:23My father says that when you put a red feather on your spear,
02:27it means that you are going to fight a war.
02:30With that spear they fought to protect the territory.
02:34The invaders came in, whether they were colonists or others,
02:38ethnicities, nationalities, they killed them with that.
02:41Now he doesn't kill people, but with that he hunts animals.
02:47Give me bread!
02:58I made a big, giant window because I like to see the forest.
03:02In the morning I'm in bed and I want to be looking at the forest.
03:18Look, the plane, that's how we came.
03:20My ear was like ...
03:22Closed.
03:23Closed, it was like covering my nose, it was like that.
03:27Every time.
03:29Everything I'm looking at, all that oil extraction,
03:32that made oil, built oil for me.
03:36And that's how courage is born.
03:39And we have to suffer for their lives.
03:42That fight is for you, for me, and for your children.
03:46And we want to leave good clean water,
03:50pure air, that is not polluted for our children,
03:55that they can live well.
03:57And that is my concern.
04:10We want to live like this, healthy, free,
04:12fish and eat happily.