For World Rivers Day, don’t miss this Siekopai short film

World Rivers Day is a day for celebrating and honoring the life-giving waters that nourish us all. My name is Ribaldo Piaguaje, and I am a #Siekopai Indigenous filmmaker, collaborating with other Indigenous artists to tell the stories of our waters and lands. We are thrilled to share our animated film Ñakomasira, made with Jimmy Piaguaje and painter César Piaguaje, which recounts an old story of the Siekopai nation, about how our ancestors made peace with the spirits of the water world. The story takes place in our ancestral heartland of Pë’këya, which we are fighting to recover after over 80 years of dispossession by the Ecuadorian government. We tell this story in honor of the importance of Pë’këya to our people and our history. Our territory and the #amazonrainforest as a whole is more than just a forest - it is a living territory filled with different stories, different knowledges, and different ways of communicating. These ways of telling stories, of