AWA

AWA is a three-letter abbreviation for * Allgemeines Wehrmachtamt, General Armed Forces Office of the Wehrmacht. * Amalgamated Wireless Australasia, Australian electronics and communications company. * American Women's Association, worldwide social and charity organisation. * American Wrestling Association, former governing body for Professional wrestling. * Australian Workplace Agreement, an individual contract between an employer and employee in Australia. * Awadhi language, ISO code for the Indo-Aryan language.

Awa

*Awa, Chiba and Awa, Tokishuma are districts in Japan. *Awa province (Chiba) and Awa province (Tokushima) were Old provinces of Japan of Japan. *The Aw� are an endangered indigenous people of Amazonia. *Awa is also the common name for the polynesian plant ''Piper methystecium'', the principal ingredient of the narcotic drink known as kava. *Awa is the name of a people group in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. *The AWA is the now-defunct American Wrestling Association, based out of the American midwest.

Aw�

The Aw� are an endangered Indigenous people of people living in the eastern Amazon River forests of Brazil. Originally living in settlements, they adopted a nomadic lifestyle about 1800 to escape incursions by Europeans. During the nineteenth century, they came under increasing attack by settlers in the region, who cleared most of the forests from their land. From the mid-1980s onward, some Aw� moved to government-established settlements, but for the most part they were able to maintain their traditional way of life, living entirely off their forests, in nomadic groups of a few dozen people, with little or no contact with the outside world. In 1982, the Brazilian government received a loan of nine hundred million US dollars from the World Bank and the European Union. One condition of this loan was that the lands of certain indigenous peoples (including the Aw�) would be demarcated and protected. This was particularly important for the Aw� because their forests were increasingly being invaded by outsiders. There were many cases of tribespeople being killed by settlers, but perhaps more significantly, the forest on which they depend was being destroyed by logging and land clearance for farming. Without government intervention it seemed very likely that the Aw� and their ancient culture would become extinct. However, the Brazilian government was extraordinarily slow to act on its commitment. It took twenty years of sustained pressure from campaigning organisations such as Survival International and the Forest Peoples Programme before, in March 2003, the Aw�'s land was finally demarcated. During this time, encroachment on their land and a series of massacres had reduced Aw� numbers to about 300, of whom only about 60 were still living their traditional, isolated, hunter-gatherer way of life. Indigenous peoples of the Americas Indigenous peoples of South America Ethnic groups of South America

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