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The Aucas have been on my heart since the first time I heard about them at a missionary conference while I was still in college. They have always been a fierce people. They killed Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century and speared a Jesuit priest, the first missionary trying to contact them, in 1667. They were left alone for 200 years. In the nineteenth century, rubber hunters raided their villages, carted off able-bodied young men to be slaves, and killed others to prevent reprisal. There could have been cooperation, but the conduct of white people ended that.