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From the Ted Talk by Nemonte Nenquimo: The forest is our teacher. It's time to respect it

Unscramble the Blue Letters

What does forest mean to us? For the Waorani plpoee, the forest is our home, it is our life, it is full of life, full of knowledge. Right now I can walk and see plants around me that we can eat, leaves we can use to heal, vines to make our bktesas with, to carry things, wood to biuld our homes, good wood, leaves to cure a headache. But if I bring a cowori here, they won’t see the way I’m seeing. Cowori does not have that knowledge. He thinks this is all a gift, a palce full of resources that he can keep extracting. The word cowori does not have to be bad. You are capable of having the same vluaes, the knowledge that we have as Amazonian peoples. You can learn, you can rpeesct. You can become our aelils.

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What does forest mean to us? For the Waorani ______, the forest is our home, it is our life, it is full of life, full of knowledge. Right now I can walk and see plants around me that we can eat, leaves we can use to heal, vines to make our _______ with, to carry things, wood to _____ our homes, good wood, leaves to cure a headache. But if I bring a cowori here, they won’t see the way I’m seeing. Cowori does not have that knowledge. He thinks this is all a gift, a _____ full of resources that he can keep extracting. The word cowori does not have to be bad. You are capable of having the same ______, the knowledge that we have as Amazonian peoples. You can learn, you can _______. You can become our ______.

Solution

  1. baskets
  2. respect
  3. build
  4. place
  5. values
  6. allies
  7. people

Original Text

What does forest mean to us? For the Waorani people, the forest is our home, it is our life, it is full of life, full of knowledge. Right now I can walk and see plants around me that we can eat, leaves we can use to heal, vines to make our baskets with, to carry things, wood to build our homes, good wood, leaves to cure a headache. But if I bring a cowori here, they won’t see the way I’m seeing. Cowori does not have that knowledge. He thinks this is all a gift, a place full of resources that he can keep extracting. The word cowori does not have to be bad. You are capable of having the same values, the knowledge that we have as Amazonian peoples. You can learn, you can respect. You can become our allies.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
indigenous peoples 6
mother earth 3
oil companies 2
amazonian peoples 2
longer consume 2

Important Words

  1. allies
  2. amazonian
  3. bad
  4. baskets
  5. bring
  6. build
  7. capable
  8. carry
  9. cowori
  10. cure
  11. eat
  12. extracting
  13. forest
  14. full
  15. gift
  16. good
  17. headache
  18. heal
  19. home
  20. homes
  21. knowledge
  22. learn
  23. leaves
  24. life
  25. people
  26. peoples
  27. place
  28. plants
  29. resources
  30. respect
  31. thinks
  32. values
  33. vines
  34. walk
  35. waorani
  36. wood
  37. word