The Siona People: Guardians of Yagé Wisdom in the Colombian Amazon
The Siona People (Zio Bain) are an Indigenous nation of the western Amazon whose ancestral territory spans the borderlands of southwest Colombia and northeast Ecuador. Their lives are interwoven with the Putumayo, Piñuña Blanco, and Aguarico rivers, and with a living cosmology centered around yagé (ayahuasca). Who Are the Siona?…