Tribeswoman #7

"She looked around her, frantically hoping to find some escape, but the street she stood in was walled on both sides and, unlike the bazaar of the night before, its gates were shut to her. Besides, she realized, the man did look friendly. What choice did she have but to give him her trust?"

"The women thought about this and drew with soot a second circle in the middle of the wood piece. They connected the center to the outer edge with ray lines. The carver took the circle and carved away at it again. When she was done she brought it to the women and they passed it one to another and were pleased with what they had created. One dropped the object and it rolled away until it fell against one of the women. She playfully rolled it back and each woman rolled it in turn to her sister across the circle when it came her way. Finally the women agreed that they had created the perfect symbol of Goddess to take with them."

"Rachel Saint is a missionary who came to Ecuador in 1955 and became very involved in converting the tribes of the Amazon after her brother, also a missionary, was killed. She establishes a Christian beachhead inside the Huaorani territory. She went on the TV show of Billy Graham, the evangelical preacher, with Dayuma, a tribeswoman she converted, and became the most famous missionary in the U.S."