Ecuador: Nobody Knew Their Names: The Black Legend Of Tetete Extermination

Ecuador: Nobody Knew Their Names: The Black Legend Of Tetete Extermination Robert Wasserstrom, Susan Reider, and Rommel Lara, 2011   Alternately hunted and ignored while they were alive, the Tetete were a small group of Western Tucanoan speakers living in the Amazonian borderlands between Ecuador and Colombia. From 1877 through the 1920s, Ecuadorian rubber collectors shot or kidnapped Tetete people whenever they showed themselves. Unlike other groups, the Tetete chose resistance rather than...

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