Auaké is a Native South American nation of the

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and

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. They were sedentary

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farmers, which requires periodic relocation as soil becomes exhausted, and were also hunters, fishers and gatherers. They spoke Arutani. Heavily influenced culturally by the Carib, they adopted agriculture sometime after the 16th century, and further acculturation followed European contact. They are found along the

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and are now considered a subgroup of the

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.Hohenthal, William D.
The Concept of Cultural Marginality and Native Agriculture in South America
page 56, 1951,

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In 1998 they numbered just 30 in Venezuela and 22 native language speakers in Brazil.

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Indigenous peoples in Venezuela Indigenous peoples in Brazil Indigenous peoples of the Guianas {{Brazil-ethno-group-stub