Update 3 - New Introduction

Communities which identify themselves as traditionally indigenous today find themselves fighting to preserve their distinctiveness from modern conglomerate companies attempting to consume their natural resources and culture.  This is a world-wide phenomenon as a result of globalization, and these “primitive groups”’ last resort is to attempt communicating agency and identity through revolution.  In the upper Amazon region of Ecuador outside of Tena, there are 17 small communities that exemplify indigenous revolution against the oil company Perenco through indignation, violence, and external communication.  This thesis attempts to interpret activism as communication, discussing the specific case study and comparing other contemporary and historical records of revolutionary movements, to better understand the fact that communicating individuality is a persistent factor with indigenous societies.  It will begin by examining historical factors and records of how these particular Andean peoples of Incan ancestry found themselves contemporarily titled “indigenous”, followed by constructing globalization theory within the context of the impact it has had on these groups, attempt to understand the present-day connection between the corporate world and native rural society, and finally dissect the case study in Ecuador to determine the communicative aspects of identity while comprehending the direction this unparallel relationship is moving towards as innovation continues to pervade even the most rustic corners of the globe.