Forest farmers of the steep, rain-drenched Pacific foothills between Nariño and Carchi, dispersed under the canopy and named for the kwaiker country they have always walked.
Avoided dense settlement and so endured the colonial centuries; today roughly 32,000 Awá hold reserves on both sides of the border, their Barbacoan language severely endangered and their land caught in the modern conflict.
Langebaek on indigenous societies of Andean/Pacific Colombia, the Barbacoan world of the Awá (broad regional context).
Native historical memory in the southern Colombian Andes (broad regional context).