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RE: World Indigenous People's Day: Diversity, Hope & Generosity of Spirit
So tell me about your culture & your tribe in a way that makes me want to engage, celebrate, recognize & enjoy. I'm ready. 😊
So tell me about your culture & your tribe in a way that makes me want to engage, celebrate, recognize & enjoy. I'm ready. 😊
We are the tribe of “first contact.” After we met Columbus, we were murdered and ethnically cleansed through rape and turned into the Spanish speaking Caribbean people you see today. We had pyramids, some of which are underwater off the coast of Cuba.
Here’s a map of our former empire and what our homes’ names were.
Search Taino in Facebook and YouTube and you will find us.
Wonderful to see your map, so many islands! But the history is tragic, the European invaders were so unnecessarily brutal. Human nature has degraded in recent millennia. It was more civilized back a few thousand years ago, according to the ancient texts of India.
Indeed. That was before man learned to mass murder for religion.
After so much disconnect and interference by the world powers, much of our culture has been lost. The language, religion, artifacts, it’s almost all gone.
We are rebuilding.
The bright side is that there is a lot of good leadership and we now have representatives in the UN trying to protect us.
My blood carries little of the DNA that is Taíno and after my daughters are gone, I believe that blood will be gone. But, as time evolves all people, I hope the tribe will still be intact and thriving. We may have lost all our ancestral lands and be scattered around the America’s but I think we are here to stay.
@artemislives thank you for your interest. Most people stare at me like I’m an alien or mentally retarded when I tell them about my Taíno roots and how I’m trying to learn what’s left of our language.
My home is slowly filling with Taíno items, they’re next to my Cuban people things.
I don’t believe there is representation of Cuban Taíno yet but technically I am Kuba Taíno as I am a direct descendant.
@mykos is from the West Indies. He is also Taíno.