The review says . . .

. . . "The Fierce People live up to their name, but I am dubious that people who live in nature can be so infected with violence."

This is a silly and naive claim. The people once called the Auca, now called the Huaorani, killed five missionaries in 1956 because they lived in fear of the surrounding tribes. Their paranoia was well founded with inter- and intra-tribal warfare raging around them. It was through the missionary work of Elisabeth Eliot--whose husband was one of the five men killed--that the Huaorani came to live in peace. Being an American Indian--NO, not a Native American--I get impatient with these silly assumptions that nature somehow provides a generous and kind nature to human beings.