The folklore says that chief Itaqui ordered all newborns put to death owing to a period of famine. When his own daughter gave birth and the child was sacrificed, she cried and died beneath a newly sprouted tree. The tree fed the tribe and was called açaí because that was the daughter's name (Iaçá) spelled backwards.
The chief then ordered that all the fruits to be harvested, from which a reddish and very thick juice was made that fed his tribe's entire population and ended ...
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Açaízal village chief José Damasceno Karipuna attended one of the workshops, where he learned how to identify trees that needed to be removed and to plant açaí ...