The Siekopai Nation, the multicolored people, reclaim their ancestral territory from which they were displaced.
They want to return to PËËKË'YA (Lagartococha), the land and water of their origin, to which they need to return to continue being Siekopais.

The constitution of Ecuador recognizes the ancestral territory as a collective right of indigenous communities, peoples and nationalities for constituting a space for the preservation of culture. For this reason the Provincial Court of Sucumbíos has the duty to guarantee the survival of the Siekopai nation.

These photographs were taken at the last Congress of the Siekopai Nationality in May 2023 in the San Pablo de Katëtsiaya Community, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, for Alianza Ceibo.