The Akawaio are an indigenous people who live in Roraima (Brazil), Guyana, and Venezuela.[1] They are one of several closely related peoples called Ingarikó and Kapon. The Akawaio language is used by 5,000 to 6,000 speakers.[3]
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^"Censo 2011 - Estructura poblacional indígena". 2011 Census Venezuela (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 February 2022.
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The Akawaio are an indigenous people who live in Roraima (Brazil), Guyana, and Venezuela. They are one of several closely related peoples called Ingarikó...
Akawaio may refer to: Akawaiopeople, an indigenous people of South America Akawaio language, the language of the AkawaiopeopleAkawaio (fish), a genus...
from the sun. Similar to other Amerindian groups (such as Patamona or Akawaiopeople) is the importance of the piaiman, a medicine-man or spiritual leader...
Oxford under Edward Evans-Pritchard, and carried out fieldwork among the Akawaiopeople in Guyana in 1951-1952 and in 1957, later broadening her study to include...
often been referred to interchangeably as Akawaio or Ingariko. Patamona are considered a sub-group of Kapon people. There are about 5,000 living members of...
This is a list of the Brazil's Indigenous or Native peoples. This is a sortable listing of peoples, associated language families, Indigenous locations...
minority of the population. These include Cariban languages such as Macushi, Akawaio and Wai-Wai; and Arawakan languages such as Arawak (or Lokono) and Wapishana...
Indigenous peoples, known locally as Amerindians, make up 10.5%. The indigenous groups include the Arawaks, the Wai Wai, the Caribs, the Akawaio, the Arecuna...
Gravesande formed an alliance with the Amerindian Arawak, Kalina, Warao and Akawaio tribes, and prevented the uprising from spreading to Demerara and Essequibo...
Alleluia church, which combines Christian beliefs with Amerindian traditions. Akawaio (Also known as Acahuayo, Acewaio, Akawai, or Ingariko), Mazaruni River...
Macushi, Patamona, Lokono, Kalina, Wapishana, Pemon, Akawaio, and Warao. Many of these peoples practised shifting agriculture alongside hunting. Historians...
were 20,872 Guyanese-born people in the UK. In 2001, Guyana was the sixth most common birthplace within the Americas for people in the UK and on a global...
locally as a common ethnonym grouping Pemón, Akawaio, and Patamono peoples (and sometimes as well the Macushi people), and may be used as well to refer to the...
1845 and 1885. Abel, an Akawaio, was credited with founding the first church in Amokokopai. He heard of Alleluia from other Akawaio who had learned of it...
Venezuela was colonized by Spain in 1522 amid resistance from Indigenous peoples. In 1811, it became one of the first Spanish-American territories to declare...
part of Brazil, and who include the Arawak, Caribs, Waraos and Akawaio, captured people from other tribes. Most males were executed, but some were enslaved...
Works By Night") and Piai ("Medicine Man") are the Creator gods of the Akawaio and neighboring Cariban tribes, said to never have been seen by mortals...
declared Spanish and languages spoken by indigenous people from Venezuela as official languages. Deaf people use Venezuelan Sign Language (lengua de señas venezolana...
Taruma, Atorada, Warrau, Arecuna, Akawaio and Patamona. Some of these languages are still spoken there by a few people. Creoles are contact languages usually...
Christopher, ed. (2010). Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger. Memory of Peoples (3rd ed.). Paris: UNESCO Publishing. ISBN 978-92-3-104096-2. Retrieved...
Isseneru. There is a village called Kako that is home to about 700 people, mostly Akawaio. The Kako River is an important source of water and food, as well...
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