Identificación y dinámica de los Pueblos Indígenas en Aislamiento Voluntario (PIAV) en el Yasuní

Abstract

The situation of the Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation (PIAV) in Ecuador is complex, since they are under the pressure of agricultural frontier expansion, a shared and conflictive use of the same hunting and gathering territory with Waorani families, who are their tribal enemies, other Amazonian indigenous groups (Shuar, Kichwa), and finally settlers-peasants. This article proposes to identify the spaces of mobility and dynamics of the PIAV, especially of the Tagueiri-Taromenane, analyze their parental and linguistic affiliation with families of the Waorani cultural group, with whom they coexist within the Yasuni national park. It also raises the problem of the impact of extractive activities, mainly oil, which have created a real siege on the territory where PIAV are mobilized, this has generated violent confrontations and massacres that have endangered the survival of the last families in the Ecuadorian Amazon in voluntary isolation.