Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Alawa people are an Indigenous Australian people from the Northern Territory Australia. They live in an area of abundant food resources i.e. turtles ducks crocodiles and fish. In modern day the Alawa people are involved in ranching. Together with the Ngandji people they have claimed the Cox River block. The suburb of Alawa in the Darwin’s north is named in honour of the Alawa people.The Alawa language had only 18 speakers in a report dated 1991 (Ethnologue).