This article presents a count of the memory and historical experience of the Wampis people with different political regimes that have sought to influence and intervene in the governance of their ancestral territory. It seeks to provide an insight into its interaction with these regimes, based on the collective memory of this people. The article then includes some of the central features of its management and territorial defence experiences in the face of the institutional changes in the Upper Amazon. The article thus addresses the problems linked to the deepening of the influence of the Peruvian national state and the commercial pressure that it seeks to bring about profound changes in the territory due to the spread of legal and illicit border economies, as well as demographic changes. The article then counts the alternatives that the Wampis people generate against this and which make up their proposal for an autonomous territorial government.