This essay will explain how the waoroni lived and how they lived in harmony with the Amazon.

The waoroni lived in a house made from trees. They would make a wooden frame then cover it in leaves. They would live in the same house for a few months then move to another place. They would make two structures and move between them every few months. There are as many as thirty members of one tribe, they all work together and all there effort is for the good of the tribe.

The Waorani rely a lot on the forest and the plants to survive. They use all the plants crush into a liquid and drink. It becomes alcoholic and the adults drink over a gallon a day. They use the bark from the curare vine which hangs from the canopy. It is the bark which contains the poison which is carved off and carried to the hut by using vine leaf. The poison is very carefully added to the end of the darts which is used to kill their food. The reason why the waorani change location every few months is because the land that the crops grow on is not fertile enough to sustain the tribe for more than one season.

The Waroni people depend on the forest for food so they must enhance their hunting skills to survive. They use wooden and metal axes which they trade or make themselves. They also use spears but they only use there spears to attack other tribes. The Waroni men hunt for all the tribe and they start from as young as eight. Although they don’t make there own blow pipes at eight. They watch there elders cut a branch from a tree and sand down the insides of the pipe. This process may take four weeks.