Tau My Relatives back in April 2008 the Bohio Ata Bey Taino Women's Council invited a number of community members to gather at a special community resource facility of the Smithsonian's NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN to spend some time and perform sacred ceremony with ancient Taino artefacts housed in that Washington D.C. area facility.
I joined our sister Inaru and a number of other Tainos and Tainas, as well as some family…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on July 22, 2008 at 6:00pm —
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Tau My Relatives Members of the Peace and Dignity Journeys East Coast contingent arrived in Western Pennsylvania on June 18 2008. They converged with members of the Longest walk2 who were at the time on the verge of de-camping from the Raccoon Creek State Prk campsite. The runners stayed at the home of Caney Circle beike Miguel Sobaoko Koromo and
at the home of Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center member
residing in Pittsbrgh,…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on July 22, 2008 at 5:50pm —
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Tau My relatives On Friday July 18 2008 Pittsburgh TV station WTAE channel 4 aired a
piece which included comments by Caney Circle beike Miguel Sobaoko
Koromo Sague concerning the significance of Pittsburgh's river
confluence in the prophecy of the Mayan Calendar Shift of Ages.
As some of you already know I have been studying the Mayan Calendar
since I was a teen-ager and in the year 2000 I was given a…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on July 22, 2008 at 5:30pm —
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CONMEMORAMOS EL 3ro ANIVERSARIO RECLAMO SAGRADO Posted by: "caney@ prtc.net." caney@ prtc.net. la_voz_taino
Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:19 am (PDT)
ACOMPÁÑENOS JULIO 25, 2008
CONMEMORAMOS EL 3ro ANIVERSARIO RECLAMO SAGRADO
DIA DEL GRITO INDÍGENA TAÍNO DE CAGUANA
Este 25 de julio de 2008, nosotros, el Caney 5to Mundo, Conclave
Taíno Guatukan de la Cordillera Central, una vez mas nos reuniremos
en el Centro Ceremonial…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on July 22, 2008 at 5:00pm —
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Tau My Relatives Back in December Grandfather Don Alejandro
Perez Oxlaj, the Quiche Maya leader of Guatemala's Council of Elders
visited Pittsburgh and councelled with myself and several others
here accompanied by Grandmother Flordemayo, a member of the highly
respected and world-recognized COUNCIL OF THIRTEEN INDIGENOUS
GRANDMOTHERS. We were aware of the fact that Grandmother Flordemayo
was preparing to visit the vatican…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on July 22, 2008 at 4:41pm —
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Tau my relatives I am happy to announce that starting next Saturday July 26 2008 the
Caney Spiritual Circle will begin a regular live webcast schedule
which will air every second and fourth Saturday of each month from
6:00 P.M. to 8:00P.M. Eastern Standard Time.
Our live webcast station is called "TAINO SPIRITUALITY AND
RESURGENCE" and is on the air courtesy of "Camstream" free webcast
service. At first the webcast…
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Added by Miguel Sague Jr on July 22, 2008 at 4:34pm —
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Bandit Queen Press is Proud to Present
The first edition of the zine
Bureau 39: The Ultimate Weapon
This is an Open Call for Complete and Utter Submission:
Bureau 39 wants your creation:
Writing (creative or otherwise); illustration, photography.
Send in your creative response by July 31st , subject line "Bureau 39" to…
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Added by Lesley-Ann Brown on June 23, 2008 at 3:41pm —
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Dear friends, if you will allow me a personal announcement, this might be of some minimal interest to a few readers of this blog.
By the end of this year I will have formally withdrawn from the Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink, which will either pass into new hands, some new hands, or none and remain archived online at a new location. The current location of the CAC is at…
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Added by Maximilian Forte on June 5, 2008 at 12:50pm —
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Given the debate surrounding the proposed ban of "mixed-blood" marriages among Dominica's Caribs, and the unexplained assertion that 1,000 "full blood Caribs" remain there, added to assertions made in the
Taino Revival book that contemporary Tainos are really black people trying to deny their blackness by choosing a Taino identity, there seems to be a whole bundle of very contentious ideas, and…
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Added by Maximilian Forte on June 1, 2008 at 4:19pm —
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A number of ICN members have asked for regular chat sessions to be scheduled. Given the size of the network, which is not in the thousands, it is probably a good idea, since that way you can be more or less assured to find someone in the chat room. I have created a special chat room for this site, which is not open and publicly archived like the last one, but is just as easy to use, and with a greater range of features, including private chatting. To sign up or login, please…
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Added by Maximilian Forte on May 18, 2008 at 8:49am —
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Quite by accident (I had never heard of Bankie Banx before today), I found this video titled "Big Chief." The story line that accompanies it reads:
In the lands, where the Arawaks roamed... A Visually stunning music video, recounting the story of the Arawak people who once inhabited the islands of the Caribbean. The 'Big Chief' story centers on a modern day island boy, who discovers an ancient scroll that reveals the true roots of his people.
I'm not sure if that is the…
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Added by Maximilian Forte on May 13, 2008 at 9:12pm —
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From the Associated Press,
Fri May 9, 11:12 PM ET
(a very rare news item on the Caribs in the international press, and it's a pretty controversial one at that):
ROSEAU, Dominica - The leader of the last remaining pre-Columbian tribe in the eastern Caribbean says outlawing marriage to outsiders can save Dominica's dwindling indigenous population, but legislators are balking at deciding who can marry whom.
Chief Charles Williams has proposed a law…
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Added by Maximilian Forte on May 10, 2008 at 11:30am —
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I will be writing about this in greater depth soon in
The CAC Review, concerning the skyrocketing of food prices worldwide, food riots, and the deepening of hunger in places such as Haiti. In Trinidad's case, there have been serious price rises on a range of basic foodstuffs, without the increased ability of large parts of the population to afford the increases. In addition, issues of food security have been revived, as they must be, once again.…
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Added by Maximilian Forte on April 26, 2008 at 9:16pm —
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You can upload photos simply by clicking on the PHOTOS tab in the menu above. The system "remembers" that you are the one that added those photos and organizes your photos into a slideshow if you choose. That slideshow--with the photos you choose--will appear on your own page. You can also share that slideshow on your page on any other site on the Web where you can paste in the code for the player.
You will see almost everyone's photos streamed in a slideshow on the front…
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Added by Maximilian Forte on April 26, 2008 at 10:43am —
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Years before the stumbling upon the so-called New World the Portuguese had already penetrated the Western coast of Africa to bring home gold dust, strange fruits and African slaves. They beat back the bush like a lion tamer with a whip and leave but nothingness in their wake. They conduct business with others who can not fathom the destiny of this trade. In this continent that is called Africa, humanity’s vanity falls to its knees in the presence of alien creations and lives are exchanged… Continue
Added by Lesley-Ann Brown on April 6, 2008 at 5:00pm —
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A new forum discussion has been started on what the meanings of "indigenous" are in the Caribbean. Here is the description of the intent of the discussion:
Indigenous can be read in many different ways. Some link the idea of indigenous to notions of race, to being "Amerindian", to ideas of ancient ancestry that predates that of all other groups resident in a given territory. Others see indigenous as being local, as belonging here, as being native in a broad…
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Added by Maximilian Forte on April 4, 2008 at 9:11am —
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Feel free to meet and join in the new CHAT ROOM for the Indigenous Caribbean Network. Click on the "Pages" tab above, and then select the chat page, or you can click directly here:
http://indigenouscaribbean.ning.com/page/page/show?id=2030313%3APage%3A841
This particular chat room, and the page that went with it, has been disabled since a new room was added to the front page… Continue
Added by Maximilian Forte on April 3, 2008 at 11:00pm —
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Now you can also CREATE PAGES on this network. Note the new "Pages" tab in the menu bar. Clicking on that takes you to where you can see pages created by other members, and you can create your own. It is possibly the simplest and easiest page creator I have seen so far.
Added by Maximilian Forte on April 1, 2008 at 3:12pm —
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The
INDIGENOUS CARIBBEAN NETWORK was created as a replacement for the
Directory of Researchers on the Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink. This blog post demonstrates one of the features for which this platform can be used.
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Added by Maximilian Forte on March 29, 2008 at 3:28pm —
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