Brief Descriptions of People Mentioned in the
Captions or the Documents in This Exhibit

Cornell Capa. Professional photojournalist on assignment for Life magazine. His photos and coverage played a very large part in the international telling of the Waorani/missionary story.

Bill Cathers. Wheaton graduate (class of 1950) who, with Jim Elliot and Ed McCully, broadcast the evangelistic radio program The March of Truth from Chester, Illinois in 1950-1951.

Dawa. Waorani woman, wife of Kimo. Assisted Elisabeth Elliot with Wao language learning.

Herbert Elliot. Jim Elliot’s brother, who was a Plymouth Brethren missionary for 50 years in Peru.

Kenneth Fleming. Brother of Peter Fleming and missionary to the Zulu people in South Africa, later a professor at Emmaus Bible Institute in Iowa.

Olive Fleming. Wife of Peter Fleming and Plymouth Brethren missionary to Ecuador. Eventually returned to the United States. Later married to Walter Liefeld.

Gikita. Waorani man, leader of the group that killed the missionaries on Palm Beach. He later became a Christian and a leader in the Waorani church.

Gimari. Young Waorani woman, sister of Nampa and Dayuma, who was one of the three people from the tribe to make a friendly first-contact with the five missionaries on Palm Beach on January 6, 1956. The missionaries nicknamed her Delilah.

Elizabeth Green. Pilot during World War II, one of the founders of Missionary Aviation Fellowship, and Nate Saint’s first contact with the organization.

Ron Harris. Plymouth Brethren worker in Mexico with whom Jim Elliot spent a week in 1947, learning about the missionary life.

Gerald and Jane Hawthorne. Jane was Jim Elliot’s sister. The Hawthornes lived in Wheaton, Illinois, where Gerald taught at Wheaton College.

Russell Hitt. Evangelical author and journalist. Author of the Nate Saint biography, Jungle Pilot.

David Howard. Brother of Elisabeth Elliot, brother-in-law and Wheaton College roommate of Jim Elliot. Howard traveled to Ecuador immediately after the killings to be with his sister.

Philip Howard, Sr. Father of Elisabeth Howard Elliot and editor of the Sunday School Times, which gave a great deal of coverage to the killing of the five missionaries and later development of Christianity among the Waorani.

Dr. Oswaldo Hurtado. President of Ecuador, 1981-1984.

Ipa (also Epa). A Waorani woman, the oldest wife of Naenkiwi.

Clarence W. Jones. Co-founder of the missionary short wave radio station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador. He was prominent in broadcasting the news about the deaths of the five men in 1956 and the continuing development of the story.

Rosi Jung. Colleague of Catherine Peeke and another key person in the translating the New Testament in Wao.

John Keenan. Pilot with Missionary Aviation Fellowship who worked closely with Nate Saint and the other four men in planning “Operation Auca.” After the murder of the missionaries, he flew over their camp, worried because they had not checked in at their regular time by radio.

Kimo. A Waorani man, one of the men who attacked and killed the missionaries at Palm Beach. He was one of the first converts to Christianity among the Waorani. He traveled with Komi and Rachel Saint to Berlin, Germany in 1966 to attend the World Congress on Evangelism and give his testimony.

Komi. A Waorani man, president of the village of Toñampade and husband of Dayuma. He attended the 1966 World Congress on Evangelism with Kimo and Rachel Saint.

Mark Lee. Professor of drama and rhetoric at Northwestern Schools in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He had Roger Youderian as a student.

Hobey E. Lowrence. One of the founders of Mission Aviation Fellowship and one of its leaders in the 1950s.

Marilou McCully. Wife of Ed McCully, mother of Steve, Mike and Matt, and Plymouth Brethren missionary to Ecuador. After Ed’s death, she ran a home for missionary children in Quito for several years before returning to the United States.

T. E. McCully Sr. Father of Ed McCully.

Mankamo (also Mankamu, Mankimo). Wife of Gikita. She and Mintaka left the Waorani and lived in Arajuno, Ecuador, where she met Elisabeth Elliot. She and Mintaka went back to the Waorani in 1958 and played a major part in inviting Elisabeth Elliot to come and live among her people.

Minkaye (also Mincayi, Minkayani). A Waorani man, one of the men who attacked and killed the missionaries at Palm Beach. Later one of the killers of Naenkiwi. He later became a Christian. He played a large part in Steve Saint’s 2006 film, The End of the Spear.

Mintaka. Older Waorani woman, sister of Gikita. She was one of the three people from the tribe to make first contact with the five missionaries on Palm Beach on January 6, 1956. Later she and Mankamo left the Waorani and lived in Arajuno, Ecuador, where they met Elisabeth Elliot. She went back to the Waorani in 1958 and played a major part in inviting Elliot to come and live among her people.

Nampa. Waorani man, brother of Dayuma and Gimade. He was one of the six men who attacked the missionaries at Palm Beach. He was wounded in the attack and either died from that wound or died in a hunting accident a year later.

Naenkiwi. Waorani male. He was one of the three Waorani who visited the missionaries on January 6. He later falsely told a party of Waorani that the missionaries had attacked their visitors, and thus precipitated the killing of the five men. Naenkiwi was later killed by other members of his tribal group.

Nimonka. A Waorani man, one of the men who attacked and killed the missionaries at Palm Beach. Later, one of the killers of Naenkiwi.

Harold John Ockenga. The pastor of Park Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts, and a well-known evangelical leader.

J. Grady Parrot. President of Mission Aviation Fellowship in 1956.

Marj Saint. Wife of Nate Saint, mother of Steve, and a Mission Aviation Fellowship worker. She later married Abe Van der Puy.

Rachel Saint. Missionary with Wycliffe Bible Translators, later independent. She was the sister of Nate Saint and established a bond with Dayuma in the mid-1950s, after Dayuma fled her tribe. She took Dayuma to the United States in 1957-1958. Later, she went with Elisabeth and Valerie Elliot to live with the Waorani in 1958 and continued to do so for the rest of her life. In 1966, she went with Kimo and Komi to the World Congress on Evangelism in Berlin, Germany. She did the first translation of the Gospel of Mark into Wao.

Samuel Saint. Brother of Nate Saint. He acted as the liaison and business agent of the five widows in the United States.

Robert Savage. Missionary to Ecuador who served as program director for the missionary short-wave station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador.

John Smart. Editor of The Fields, the mission magazine of the Plymouth Brethren Assemblies.

Clyde Taylor. Executive Director of the Evangelical Foreign Mission Association and one of the trustees of the Five Missionary Martyrs Fund.

Wilfred Tidmarsh. Plymouth Brethren missionary in Ecuador who was somewhat a mentor to Jim Elliot, Ed McCully and Peter Fleming.

Umpurae (or possibly Ompodae). Waorani woman, wife of Minkaye. Assisted Elisabeth Elliot with the Wao language.

Abe Van der Puy. Head of the Foreign Missionary Fellowship in Ecuador in 1956 and staff member of HCJB short wave radio station. He was deeply involved in broadcasting the story of the five men’s deaths immediately after the event. He was also credited with the article that appeared in Reader’s Digest in August 1956, although it was essentially written by a Digest editor.

Jack Wyrtzen. Prominent American Fundamentalist evangelist and broadcaster.

Barbara Youderian. Wife of Roger Youderian and Gospel Missionary Union worker in Ecuador.

Yowe (also Yowi or Dyuwe). A Waorani man, one of the men who attacked and killed the missionaries at Palm Beach. Later one of the killers of Naenkiwi. He later became a Christian and a leader in the Waorani church.