I don't know much about the Yequana (who live in Venezuela). However, as a missionary in Guatemala, I saw many "simple, dirt-floored huts" and got a taste of the "traditional ways of life." It is not such a great life.
Once, I participated in a health and welfare survey of the local Indian population. I remember interviewing one family who lived in a "simple, dirt-floored hut." They had three living children; another four children had died in infancy. I was told that in that particular region of highland Guatemala, ten children died every day from measles and other childhood diseases. Crippling, blinding, and disfiguring diseases were common, as was malnutrition.
I would urge these green nitwits to spend five years living the "traditional" way before touting it as the solution to our ills. Frankly, I doubt any of them would last five weeks.
I lived in Mexico for a time and I can tell you that no one voluntarily lives like this fool is describing. They would think you crazy if you told them that living in a hut with a dirt floor was superior to living in a regular house.