Compare and contrast Nenquimo’s father, Tiri, and the missionary Rachel Saint. How does the memoir use these two figures as foils to define the central conflict between the Waorani cosmovision and the values of Western “Civilization”?

How does Nenquimo’s journey from personal trauma to collective political action advance a larger argument about the nature of effective Indigenous resistance?

We Will Be Jaguars is an oral narrative rendered into written form with a co-author. Analyze how this origin influences the memoir’s style, voice, and authority.

Analyze the success of the memoir in framing resource extraction as a form of cultural warfare.

Discuss the use of the physical body as a symbolic landscape in the memoir. How do the ailments, injuries, and violence inflicted upon key figures such as Nenquimo, Victor, and Nënëcawa mirror the larger violation of the Waorani people?

Explore the evolution of storytelling as a tool of resistance in We Will Be Jaguars. To what extent does Nenquimo’s story demonstrate a strategic shift from traditional to more modern means of expressing history and identity?

How does Nenquimo’s mother, Manuela, illustrate the internal conflicts colonialism inflicts upon the Waorani people?

The memoir is a counternarrative to heroic missionary accounts inspired by “Operation Auca” such as Elisabeth Elliot’s Through Gates of Splendor (1957). Analyze the rhetorical and narrative strategies Nenquimo uses to dismantle this hagiographic genre.