The Autobiography of a Killer and the Oral History of the Waorani People

By Menkaye Ænkædi with Kemo and Dyowe

As told to Tim Paulson aka Moipa

Interpreted from Wao-Tededo to Spanish by Gilberto Nenquimo Ænkæde

Translated from Spanish to English by Timothy Paulson

This book is the autobiography of a tribal spiritual leader from the jungle of Eastern Ecuador who tells his own life story, and how he helped to spear 5 men from the Modern World who had attempted to make peaceful contact with this violent tribe known as the Waorani–the most violent people group on Earth. It is also this people’s oral history, mythology, and the vision of this old wise man for the future of his people who are being increasingly encroached upon by The Ways of the City and its unquenchable consumerist appetite. It is more than anything a story of how this man was overcome by love, giving us a deep insight into how our Worlds should mesh together, since the swallowing-up of this isolated people group is inevitable.