I am trying to make a request using django-rest-framework and

If this isn't the right documentation or package, please send a link to the correct one along with the location that says to use Token (which is actually how simple_jwt works, not this package).

In your settings file you actually override all the default settings, when you only need the ones you want to change. In this list, at the bottom, I see this:

    'JWT_AUTH_HEADER_PREFIX': 'JWT',