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Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Waorani of Ecuador shortly after making first contact.
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Operation Auca
1955 Christian proselytizing in Ecuador
Operation Auca was an attempt by five Evangelical Christian missionaries from the United States to bring Christianity to the Waorani or Huaorani people of the rain forest of Ecuador. The Waorani, also known pejoratively as Aucas, were an isolated tribe known for their violence,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Missionary
Member of a religious group sent into an area to promote their faith
A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Waorani people
Indigenous people in Ecuador
The Waorani, Waodani, or Huaorani, also known as the Waos, are an Indigenous people from the Amazonian Region of Ecuador who have marked differences from other ethnic groups from Ecuador. The alternate name Auca is a pejorative exonym used by the neighboring Quechua natives, and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contains the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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