Auwe

A’uwẽ is the name by which the Xavante call themselves. They belong to the central Jê-speaking peoples of the Brazilian interior and are related to the Xerente of the Tocantins valley. The Araguaia and its tributaries cross a landscape of grassland and seasonal wetlands. Xavante accounts remember a crossing of the Araguaia before communities established themselves farther west in the country of the Serra do Roncador.