Country: Ecuador
Group: Shuar
Date Finalized: 4/4/2020
Team: Alicia Hernandez (lead), Arisha Khan, Kimberly Prete
The Shuar are one of the biggest indigenous groups in Ecuador. In recent years, Ecuador’s government has given mining companies control of Shuar ancestral land, which the Shuar see as important for their culture and livelihood. In 2016, police forcibly moved Shuar people and protestors in order to protect and move in mining groups (Villa, 2017; Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, 2017). Related conflicts over land rights have led to Shuar deaths and kidnappings (Villa, 2017). The data quality for this group is a 2 because there is a lot of information on the group, however specific details about the loss of livelihood and culture are currently not available.
Sources
- Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organization. (2017, July 14). The Shuar, a Forgotten Indigenous Community in Ecuador. https://unpo.org/article/20214?id=20214
- Vila, D. (April 2017). Ecuador: Indigenous Shuar resist corporate mining. Retrieved from https://socialism.com/fs-article/ecuador-indigenous-shuar-resist-corporate-mining/