Sky Chief

Duration: 28

Year Published: 1972

Creator: U of Calif Extension Media Center

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Uses personal interviews to examine the problems of various groups such as Indians, oil men, settlers, soldiers, and traders who live in the rain forest of Oriente Province, Ecuador. Explains that settlers have left drought-stricken provinces for the rain forest only to find hard work and high prices, because the government and the oil companies fear that they will interfere with the area's development. Focuses on Indian exploitation, noting that, as their traditional lands are taken, they are either pushed further back into the interior or reduced to working as laborers or to making exportable trinkets.

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