Across the water they could see the green-hell jungle, where lurked the raw material of their mission: 2,000 members of the savage Auca Indian tribe. “Worst People on Earth.” The Aucas have ...

At the time, the tribe was composed of some 300 to 600 people ... The mission was named Operation Auca, as the neighboring Quechua referred to the Waodani as “aucas”, a pejorative term meaning ...

the Waorani Indians, known as Auca cannibals, had her husband Jim martyred by these Auca Indians in October of 1958. I was a teenager at the time, and these five martyred young missionaries ...