This article analyzes the monetarization process of the indigenous Sionas of the Ecuadorian Amazon, their gathering economy and their future uncertainties. Through ethnographic work during three years in the Soto Tsiaya community on the Aguarico River, I affirm that the Sionas anticipate their economic future in the very short term because they live a gathering economy that allows them to subsist on a day-to-day basis. In addition, in their territory there are petitions-collections that are part of a historical process of colonial and extractivist monetarization, as well as vital exchanges from the interrelationship between the Zionas and non-humans, that is, their feeling and living in their cosmos where spiritual relationships are reproduced for their subsistence. Beyond a future where economic accumulation is a priority, their future uncertainties reflect concerns about their identity and cultural changes, as well as the importance of safeguarding their territory because it is the manifestation of their being, thought, practices, memory, spiritualities and economy.