Awen

Awen is a name associated with the Xavante, a Jê-speaking people of the central Brazilian plateau who call themselves A’uwẽ. Related to the Xerente, they inhabited country connected by the Tocantins and Araguaia rivers. Xavante accounts remember crossing the Araguaia and establishing communities toward the Serra do Roncador, in a landscape of wooded savanna, streams and open grassland.