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Teachers participating in Outreach Program:
Larry Conte Kevin Biles |
Please note and be generous: |
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Kevin Biles, 5th grade teacher looks on as Flora Lu, a UNC-CH PhD candidate in Anthropology begins her presentation on the Huaorani Indians of Ecuador. |
Students carefully look over a Huaorani spear and are amazed at how heavy this spear made out of palm wood really is. |
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8:45 - 10:00
10:05 - 11:00 11:05 - 12:15 |
Three periods of informative presentation on the indigenous people of the
Amazon basin and various issues relating to ecology, culture, and modern
methods encroaching on traditional hunter/gatherer societies.
A look at the difficulties that oil pumping and boom towns create for indigenous people in the Orianca region of Ecuador. |
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Hitting a large balloon with a small dart is not a problem for these students. |
Flora Lu carefully instructing 5th grade students in the use of a scaled down blowgun made by the Huaorani people and used by their children in play. |
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![]() Students were very interested in the ecology and the various issues relating to the Amazon basin. |
Many interesting suggestions on what we can do at home to help save these endangered people and their ecological niche. Since Ecuador relies heavily on oil royalties for its national budget than substituting tourism and saving gasoline would help a bit. But ultimately its best to help the people there learn how to help themselfs in these changing circumstances. |