Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves. Luke 10:2-3
The Dayuma Story
I was born on Fish River.
Afterwards we lived well on Palm River.
We saw the high hills far off clearly.
We saw far downriver.
My big brother was Wawae.
My father was Tyaento, my mother, Akawo.
Nampa my brother was a small child.
Oba my sister was still younger.
My big sister was Onaenga, my other sister, Gimari
My mother’s relatives were many.
My uncles were Wamoñi and Gikita.
Moipa and Itaeka did not do well.
Fleeing and hiding we came, far, far downriver.
We went by canoe. Then we went back.
When did they spear? They speared at night.
My father escaped into the water.
They dug a grave for him and he was caused to die.
But he didn’t die right away.
I didn’t see it. They spoke and I heard.
My relative said, “I buried him.”
Moipa and Itaeka speared.
Where did they go, did they say?
On a small stream upriver we returned.
We didn’t see them.
We drank the water of maeñika fruit.
It rained, we got wet.
The jaguar growled, the monkeys called.
We climbed the trees when the jaguar came.
Then we fled.
We came at night in the moonlight.
We speared gyaegyae fish.
We were planting peanuts on Palm River.
The outsiders came with guns and shot.
Their dogs barked.
We went into the water, then fled on the other side…
Even after eight years of peaceful living on Don Carlos’s hacienda, out of reach of the spears that had killed her father, fear and hate were still hot in the Auca girl’s heart. The smoldering embers of revenge needed only to be stirred into sudden, flaming life, and in a few moments the docile day labor of the banana fields was transformed into a wild girl of the jungle. Murder gleamed from her angry eyes as she was transported to the land of spearing and fleeing, of violence and vengeance.
Dayuma: Life Under Waorani Spears, pages 16-17
2021
North Sentinel Island still awaits the arrival of the Good News of Jesus the Messiah.
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