We Will Be Jaguars Audiobook By Mitch Anderson, Nemonte Nenquimo cover art

We Will Be Jaguars

A Memoir of My People

Preview

Try for $0.00
Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

We Will Be Jaguars

By: Mitch Anderson, Nemonte Nenquimo
Narrated by: Christine Anne-Roche
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $21.49

Buy for $21.49

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

About this listen

From a fearless, internationally acclaimed activist, We Will Be Jaguars is an impassioned memoir about an indigenous childhood, a clash of cultures, and the fight to save the Amazon rainforest and protect her people.

Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest—one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s—Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing. She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. She played barefoot in the forest and didn’t walk on pavement, or see a car, until she was a teenager and left to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city.

But after Nemonte’s ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with her to return and embrace her own culture, she listened. Nemonte returned to the forest and traditional ways of life and became one of the most forceful voices in climate change activism. She spearheaded an alliance of Indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against Big Oil, protecting over a half million acres of primary rainforest.

We Will Be Jaguars is an astonishing memoir by an equally astonishing woman. Nemonte digs into generations of oral history, uprooting centuries of conquest, and hacking away at racist notions of Indigenous peoples. Ultimately, she reveals a life story as rich, harsh, and vital as the Amazon rainforest herself.

©2024 Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson (P)2024 Headline Publishing Group Ltd
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

What listeners say about We Will Be Jaguars

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    20
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    20
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    20
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Nemonte’s story

What stood out to me was her story & the richness of life in the forest and how meeting Mitch made her activism possible. I hope more of the Waorani stories will be preserved. Mitch did an excellent job chronicling her story. The narrator was good.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

It is important to realize people are still being preyed upon.

The book is a must listen! 21st century conquistadors are alive and taking advantage of others. We must respect the rights of others!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

*Shouting from rooftops!

Best book all year, and one that will stay with me for years to come. Perfectly narrated! For a book that helps me feel and understand the effects of extractive colonialism, bone-deep, this is also a story with so much humor, love, and richness. Thank you for the gift of your story, Nemonte Nenquimo. I will pass this one on to as many friends and family as I can. Your story will help us heal.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

This story will change you

This story touched me on so many levels. It is so important to be educated about the effects the way you live can have on other people and lands. To think and live globally.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

authenticity

Unexpected environmental achievement through perseverance, love, truth, triumph, power, courage, friendship, strength, knowledge and goodness

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    3 out of 5 stars

It’s a story that should be written but fell flat

I thought this took place long ago but this woman is only 38. We have to do better with humanity. I was left wanting more from this story but unfortunately this writer just didn’t capture the issues and the trauma in a fluid manner. It felt disconnected at times, repetitive and slow.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!