Tagaeri

The Tagaeri are a band of Huaorani people living in the Ecuadorian Amazon Basin, named (in the Huaorani language) for their association with the warrior Taga. While they share a cultural and linguistic heritage with other Huaorani, they have continued to live the nomadic lifestyle once common to their people and have been fiercely resistant, making them one of the so-called uncontacted peoples of the world.

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The band separated from other Huaorani in 1968, led by Taga, during a period of intense inter-clan violence and have since lived in comparative isolation. Attempts at contact by outside peoples have often been violently rebuffed, beginning with a series of attacks on the colonial settlement of Coca in reprisal for the attempted evangelization by the Southern Institute of Linguistics. The most recent such violence was the 1987 spearing of brother-sister missionaries Alejandro Labaca and In?s Arango.

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Contact with other Huaorani has remained at a low level, often marked by bursts of inter-clan violence, as in 1993 and 2003.

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