hen Nemonte Nenquimo was little, she and siblings would hear planes flying over their village in the Amazon and race one another to the nearby landing strip to see who was arriving. Only white people – known as – travelled by plane, and they would bring gifts of candy, clothes, earrings and dolls with blond hair. Over the years, they brought other things too: God, polio, alcohol and oil executives waving contracts allowing them to plunder Indigenous land for its oil reserves. One village elder reported
