Kuwe Duwakalumi: The Arawak sacred routes of migration, trade, and resistance

Kuwe or Kuwai is a powerful cultural hero among the Arawak of the Northwest Amazon. This article analyzes Kuwe teachings and sacred routes as political, religious, migratory, and trade strategies of resistance. These routes were used by the Warekena and the Bare Indians to resist the colonial and postcolonial encroachment on their ancestral territories during the eighteenth century.