![]() ![]() I was profoundly critical of them and I still am. They did make peaceful contact with the Waorani. Eventually, some of the women stayed and succeeded in doing what the men had failed to do. They left their wives and nine little children. When the five men did enter the territory, all were killed. "They had a reputation of reacting with violent attacks to any incursion into their territory, but these felt that they had been called by God. They called them the Auca, but they were the Waorani. that went to Ecuador with the goal of converting an un-contacted Indigenous people. It was about five Christian missionary families from the U.S. It was considered a very inspiring story in our church. "I knew this story as a child because my parents had two memoirs written by one of the main characters in this book. Thomas spoke to CBC Books about writing Five Wives. See all the winners for the 2019 Governor General's Literary Awards.Joan Thomas's novel won the 2019 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. Five Wivesfictionalizes the story of the women left to deal with the fall-out of their husbands' actions and deaths, which were widely covered by the media. In 1956, five evangelical Christian missionaries were killed when they ventured into the Ecuador rainforest to convert the Waorani, a group of Indigenous people who had no previous contact with the outside world. ![]()
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