Olivia Arévalo

Olivia Arévalo Lomas (February 1937 – 19 April 2018) was a Peruvian Onanya of Shipibo-Conibo Indigenous people of Ucayali region, a Ayahuasca plant medicine healer, and environmental and cultural rights activist.

[1][2][3] She advocated “for the recognition of indigenous communities' rights and the preservation of their ancestral territories.”[4] She was also being "considered a wealth of knowledge about Amazonian plants and native traditions.

"[5] Olivia Arévalo Lomas was born in February 1937 in the village of Victoria Gracia in Peru's central Amazon region of Ucayali.

She is featured on the Resurrector produced album Onáyabaon Bewá – Messages from Mother Earth, as part of Liberation Movement, a music and art collective founded in 2010 in San Francisco.

She was “shot twice in her chest” allegedly by Sebastian Woodroffe, a native of Vancouver Island, Canada, who was later killed by a group of local communities.