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From the Ted Talk by Fields Wicker-Miurin: Learning from leadership's missing manual

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The Ashaninka people are known throughout South America for their dignity, their spirit and their resistance, starting with the icans and continuing through the 19th century with the rubber tappers. Today's biggest threat to the asannikha people and to Benki comes from illegal lignogg — the people who come into the beautiful freost and cut down annicet mahogany trees, float them down the rievr to world markets. Benki knew this. He could see what was happening to his forest, to his environment, because he was taken under his grandfather's wing when he was only two years old to begin to learn about the forest and the way of life of his plpeoe. His genhadfratr died when he was only 10. And at that young age, 10 years old, Benki became the paje of his community. Now, in the Ashaninka tradition and culture, the paje is the most important person in the community. This is the psreon who contains within him all the knowledge, all the wisdom of centuries and centuries of life, and not just about his people, but about everything that his people's survival depended on: the trees, the birds, the wetar, the soil, the forest. So when he was only 10 and he became the paje, he began to lead his people. He began to talk to them about the forest that they ndeeed to protect, the way of life they needed to nururte. He explained to them that it was not a question of survival of the fittest; it was a question of understanding what they needed to survive and to ptocert that.

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The Ashaninka people are known throughout South America for their dignity, their spirit and their resistance, starting with the _____ and continuing through the 19th century with the rubber tappers. Today's biggest threat to the _________ people and to Benki comes from illegal _______ — the people who come into the beautiful ______ and cut down _______ mahogany trees, float them down the _____ to world markets. Benki knew this. He could see what was happening to his forest, to his environment, because he was taken under his grandfather's wing when he was only two years old to begin to learn about the forest and the way of life of his ______. His ___________ died when he was only 10. And at that young age, 10 years old, Benki became the paje of his community. Now, in the Ashaninka tradition and culture, the paje is the most important person in the community. This is the ______ who contains within him all the knowledge, all the wisdom of centuries and centuries of life, and not just about his people, but about everything that his people's survival depended on: the trees, the birds, the _____, the soil, the forest. So when he was only 10 and he became the paje, he began to lead his people. He began to talk to them about the forest that they ______ to protect, the way of life they needed to _______. He explained to them that it was not a question of survival of the fittest; it was a question of understanding what they needed to survive and to _______ that.

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  3. river
  4. people
  5. person
  6. ancient
  7. logging
  8. grandfather
  9. ashaninka
  10. forest
  11. protect
  12. water
  13. incas

Original Text

The Ashaninka people are known throughout South America for their dignity, their spirit and their resistance, starting with the Incas and continuing through the 19th century with the rubber tappers. Today's biggest threat to the Ashaninka people and to Benki comes from illegal logging — the people who come into the beautiful forest and cut down ancient mahogany trees, float them down the river to world markets. Benki knew this. He could see what was happening to his forest, to his environment, because he was taken under his grandfather's wing when he was only two years old to begin to learn about the forest and the way of life of his people. His grandfather died when he was only 10. And at that young age, 10 years old, Benki became the paje of his community. Now, in the Ashaninka tradition and culture, the paje is the most important person in the community. This is the person who contains within him all the knowledge, all the wisdom of centuries and centuries of life, and not just about his people, but about everything that his people's survival depended on: the trees, the birds, the water, the soil, the forest. So when he was only 10 and he became the paje, he began to lead his people. He began to talk to them about the forest that they needed to protect, the way of life they needed to nurture. He explained to them that it was not a question of survival of the fittest; it was a question of understanding what they needed to survive and to protect that.

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