Auaké people

The Auaké are an Indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest of Venezuela[1] and Brazil. They were historically sedentary slash-and-burn farmers, and were also hunters, fishers and gatherers. They speak Arutani. Heavily influenced culturally by the Carib, they adopted agriculture sometime after the 16th century, and further acculturation followed European contact.[2] They are found along the Paragua River and are now considered a subgroup of the Shiriana people.[3] In 2011, 20 Arutani people self-identified themselves in Venezuela; only eight of them claimed to speak the language.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "List of indigenous groups and countries". eaglefeather.honors.unt.edu. 2010. Archived from the original on July 18, 2015. Retrieved September 12, 2015.
  2. ↑ Steward, Julian H.; Métraux, Alfred (1948). Steward, Julian H. (ed.). Handbook of South American Indians: Volume 3 The Tropical Forest Tribes. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143.
  3. ↑ Hohenthal, William D., The Concept of Cultural Marginality and Native Agriculture in South America, page 56, 1951, University of California, Berkeley
  4. ↑ Labrada, Jorge Emilio Rosés; Chacon, Thiago; Medina, Francia (2020-07-31). "Arutani (Venezuela and Brazil) – Language Snapshot". Language Documentation and Description. 17 (0). doi:10.25894/ldd108. ISSN 2756-1224.



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