[ES/UNTRANSLATED] Nemonte Nenquimo: Listen to the voices of the Amazon Rainforest
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
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🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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(By request, this is the raw, untranslated version of our interview with Nemonte Nenquimo — in which you will hear Nemonte's original responses in Spanish to Kaméa's questions presented in English.)
What has been the historical relationship between missionary work and the development of the oil industry in the Ecuadorian Amazon? What does it mean to listen to the voices — both human and more-than-human — of the Amazon Rainforest?
And how do the Waorani navigate tensions between their Indigenous cosmovisions and ways of life, and the outside world’s growing influence on their younger generations?
For our special Earth Month feature, we are honored to share our powerful conversation with Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo — who recently co-authored We Will Be Jaguars with her partner, Mitch Anderson.
How do we recenter our perspectives of “modern” on communities who are, in this modern day, most in tune with the languages of Mother Earth — and reorient our ideals of “futuristic” towards all that enrich and affirm life?
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| 0:54.7 | Hola. By request, here is the untranslated version of my full conversation with |
| 1:00.5 | Nemonte and Kimo. |
| 1:02.1 | So you'll hear me asking the questions in English per usual, and you'll hear Neumonte |
| 1:07.7 | responding to me fully in Spanish without an English voiceover. |
| 1:12.5 | Mucha gracias for tuning in and for your support of Green Dreamer. |
| 1:23.6 | Hello, dear one, you are listening to Green Dreamer, and I'm your host, Kamea Shane. |
| 1:29.8 | It is Earth Month, and I'm so, so incredibly honored to bring you my most recent conversation with Waurani leader of the Ecuadorian Amazon, Nemonte Nankimo. |
| 1:42.5 | Her most recent book, co-authored with her partner and co-founder of Amazon Frontlines, Mitch Anderson, is titled We Will Be Jaguars, also titled We Will Not Be Saved in the UK. |
| 1:56.0 | And actually, we'll have a complimenting episode with Mitch Anderson coming right after this one. So I would |
| 2:02.2 | really recommend listening to both of these in honor of Earth Day and Earth Month. Also, the featured |
| 2:09.6 | intermission music that you'll be hearing later was provided by the Warrani community. So this special |
| 2:16.1 | duo of episodes, this one with Nemonte and the next one with |
| 2:19.8 | Mitch, was really a powerful collaboration of love for the Amazon and for the Earth. So I hope you |
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