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On March 8, 2012 several hundred Indigenous people began a two week march across Ecuador to call attention to their protest of a large-scale open-pit copper mine. Ecuacorriente, a Chinese company, has been authorized by the Correa government to develop a mine near El Pangui, Zamora-Chinchipe Province, in the southern part of the country.

This is an urgent letter from Domingo Antun, leader of the Shuar Arutam Maikuaints Peoples in Ecuador. The Maikuaints are facing imminent displacement as Solaris Resources, a transnational mining corporation, advances operations on Shuar ancestral territory without tribal consent. This is not merely a land dispute but an existential crisis for a people whose spiritual, cultural, and physical identity is inextricably bound to these lands and waters.

ILUKU (Kichwa)

La base de la organización son los ayllukunas “familias”, tenemos prácticas colectivas basada en los principios del Sumak Kawsay “Buen vivir”, Sumak allpa mama “territorio” Sumak mirachina “economía ancestral”, Sacha Runa Yachay “Saberes y conocimientos Ancestrales” y el Sumak Tantanakuy “Auto gobierno”.

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