A member of an indigenous people of Guyana and Brazil, or their language belonging to the Arawakan language family.
From the indigenous Arawakan languages of South America; the name is self-designated by the people themselves. Historical records of the Akawai appear in early European colonial accounts of the Amazon region.
The Akawai people developed sophisticated knowledge of tropical rainforest plants for medicine and food that scientists are still studying today to discover new drugs and crops!
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