My favorite nonfiction reads are those that blow the doors open wide for me on any people or a corner of the world that I've previously been unfamiliar with, or at least not familiar with to any sizable extent. So, of course I enjoyed the new memoir from indigenous activist Nemonte Nenquimo. Not only did I have the genuine privilege of reading her own personal story, but I also was given the opportunity to be introduced to some of the challenges that she and the Waorani Nation as a whole have faced against oil companies, missionaries, and other exploitative forces, to learn about the successful resistance that she has helped lead as a member of an alliance of native nations and their supporters, and also to get my very first glimpse into the lives and cultures of some of the indigenous nations in the headwaters of the Amazon.

"We Will be Jaguars" is the kind of book that I consider a compact and much-appreciated mini-education - and it's also very much the kind of book that I would love to have up in the shelves of my library.

I really loved this memoir. I loved learning about the culture of Memonte and the community they are apart of. I loved hearing their stories and seeing how they have fought to keep their culture alive and protect their home. It was a great memoir