Indigenous Caribbean Network
2024-03-29T11:23:40Z
Juan Almonte
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Every breath we take is sacred
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2023-03-14T13:54:34.581Z
Juan Almonte
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Be mindful of the programming, especially for our children
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2023-03-14T09:56:49.785Z
Juan Almonte
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MY STORY & Seeking Guidance to Access My Taino Ancestors
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2023-02-10T17:20:24.545Z
Juan Almonte
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<p>Hello Family, </p>
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<p>I'm very emotional right now and don't know how even to begin explaining the phenomenons that have occurred in my life that are all blessings that have developed my spiritual growth for loving nature so much more on a spiritual level and giving thanks and praise to the goddess and gods who have guided me this far into my journey. </p>
<p>As a little girl, I always felt like I had a profound source of "magic," I would always picture myself as the good witch, the…</p>
<p>Hello Family, </p>
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<p>I'm very emotional right now and don't know how even to begin explaining the phenomenons that have occurred in my life that are all blessings that have developed my spiritual growth for loving nature so much more on a spiritual level and giving thanks and praise to the goddess and gods who have guided me this far into my journey. </p>
<p>As a little girl, I always felt like I had a profound source of "magic," I would always picture myself as the good witch, the one to help people. But I never really understood that until I became an adult. </p>
<p>Growing up with two proud Puerto Rican parents who have taught me the history of Puerto Rico and the fascinating parts of it all for me as a child has always been knowing that I was proud of being called "negra" because I had indigenous and African blood running through my veins. Every year I traveled to Puerto Rico, I looked forward to living my time abundantly in Anasco, where it is simple living with no internet, just the silence and sounds of the water running down by my grandmother's house, the vegetation we would eat coming from the backyard, and our grandmothers home hidden away in a dense little rainforest. </p>
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<p>I would go down to the streams every day in the summer to search for the red stones that little I knew was used by the Tainos to paint their face. I loved drawing with them, erasing with water, and redrawing again. I also felt so whole, so happy, and so magical. I am addicted to summer. I love the beach, and naturally, I always pray when I arrive and breathe salt water, paying my respect to the power of the waves. Puerto Rico felt like my sanctuary, my retreat, my spirituality. </p>
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<p>Born in New York and raised in New Jersey, I would say that my parents raised me well and proud. Summers were short, and winters were long. So weekends were based on Saturday Catechism and Sunday Mass. My mother and my grandmother raised my brother and me in Catholicism, and while I respected the religion in itself and I do believe in a higher power. It wasn't me. I couldn't feel that connection; it wasn't alive to me. It did not make me whole. As I grew up, I tried Christianity, which would work for a little while because I was a person who believed in faith, but then I felt empty again. </p>
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<p>It wasn't until I was a teen that I could express myself more freely through dance. I discovered that while my goals were to study art at a prestige Liberal Art High School in NJ, there was a dance program. So I tried out and was even given a second audition where I made it known that while I did not have the technique of a ballet dancer, I had the passion and spirit. I began my dance journey, and it was hard. I was the only Latina in my class and the only girl with no ballet experience. I gained my fellow dancers' respect when I could dance through emotion. My professors believed in me. They always have, and one day, the school organized their annual hispanic heritage month show, which featured musica typica de Puerto Rico Plena y Bomba. I WAS ALIVE. </p>
<p>It became apparent to everyone that "she is in a trance; it's like a spirit is inside her." Everyone felt so much energy as I danced through the sounds of the drums. I didn't wake up until it was over. I was so high off the beat of the drums; it was incredibly indescribable, and at the time, it felt scary for me because it did feel like a spirit was inside of me. I breathed song and dance, but I also breathed the urge to be a mother. </p>
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<p>I raised two children independently and have gone through a series of obstacles, but I did not understand how I could always get back on my feet so quickly. The willpower I had to learn to rebuild to grow without thinking, without question. But that would all change when my heart was "broken" (I will get there...) I felt lost. I was tired of feeling like I was a blessing and a curse. I felt as a woman; I could satisfy a man with my sexuality, my motherly qualities, and my love for cooking, caring, and unconditional love. But they did not see me until I was long gone. It felt like a curse because I would see these very men change and become better people give more love and respect other women, and I wasn't the one. It was through a coworker that I discovered my true spirituality.</p>
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<p>On November 7, 2019, my life completely changed. I was on my way to Atlantic City, which was almost two hours away, when I finally reached what would be a celebration dinner for completing my education and also my ticket to seek higher pay for my hard work. It was the phone call I received that turned my life around that led me never to arrive and urgently return to what was once my home. I had suffered fire devastation in my apartment, and everything, including the animals, was gone. It had to be the most devastating moment I felt in my life. But that day, through so many sobbing tears and pain, my coworker rushed from work the minute I called her. Liz held my head up with her hands, looked into my eyes, smiling and laughing through tears, and said, "didn't you meditate and ask your spirit guides for guidance with your life? That you wanted to start all over? Your spirit guides answered your prayers! Angela, take this in! It's your blessing! You manifested this!" </p>
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<p>There began my journey; I reflected on dreams I have had in the past that were premonitions and symbolic dreams with snakes, spiders, and even what felt like my past of what was me as a slave from another era in my life. I taught myself about crystals and read books based on spirituality, and practiced moon rituals with medicinal herbs, blessed candles, sage, and crystals. I felt free. I danced alone to drums. I left my hair wild because I felt like I belonged in a place infested with the density of trees and a fish in need of water. I began feeling my life needed to be surrounded by water. I made sure to spend my summers in the mountains, where I felt peace, by a body of water, where I shared the most intimate moments with my children, where I felt like myself. I was gifted animals by my spiritual guides, that were powerful and meant to ground me, remind me of who I am, and protect me. A snake, and two marsupial ferrets, who were precisely the same sex and color as the ones that passed in the fire. The fire department allowed me to take them home, they both were facing one another, one black and one white, as they were both in sleep position in the form of yin yang, and I provided them a proper burial. I understood that spiritually they were my familiars. They protected my children from harm. </p>
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<p>I began to discover a way to get closer to my spirit guides and seek self-healing and my purpose in life through psilocybin. Each moment was a different and groundbreaking, and beautiful spiritual moment. There was one thing I feared, speaking to my ancestors. </p>
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<p>My last spiritual journey led me to this beautiful website/page. I felt Atabey, I didn't know who she was, but she called me (I'm crying now). I believe she was letting me know that I have the gift of healing, but I don't know where to begin. </p>
<p>I never experienced what I experienced this past weekend. My home is sacred to me, and my bed is my altar. I felt the most incredible and powerful vibrations through my body and felt someone inside of me pulling out the pain of people connected in my circle. I felt my father, my mother, and my brother; someone was telling me to call them and heal them. It was hard to do because the phone was sickening to look at (technology and spirituality don't mix. lol), but it was my form of communication with them. At that moment with my family, I told them "hay un Espiritu mas poderosa en mi vida que viene de parte de la Familia de mami, y no see quien ella es pero ella es fuerte y see esta comunicando conmigo, papi te quiero mucho pero tienes que aceptar que yo no soy las misma persona, tengo una bendicion y un cargo encima y necesito liberar y ser quien soy yo, no entiendo porque esto me esta pasando pero siento, lo siento, y es fuerte" I cry everytime I think of the moments I had with each person. I was experiencing child labor on my bed; I was sweating profusely and moaning repeatedly. Collapsing to the bed in a fetal position to regain my strength to do it all over again with every person I needed to heal. I realized I was a healer, a filter of some sort. The energy, the pain the suffering of others would go through me to feel and my purpose was to heal them and teach them how to let go, what to do, and with prayer and love. I was so exhausted after what were 5 hours. </p>
<p>I began researching and trying to find what kind of spirit I had experienced, and there she was. Atabey. I began to feel this connection to her when I gave birth to what was myself during my journey. I began to understand why there have been emotional moments in my life of pure pain, anger & sadness all at once, and during that moment, mother nature turned the weather into heavy rain storms.</p>
<p>There is so much I need to learn about my past ancestors, my bloodline, my spirituality, my heritage, and my peace as a Taino for me to help others. </p>
<p>Which leads me to seek help and guidance from anyone that can help me. Are there any retreats or programs in Puerto Rico where I can learn more and experience and practice rituals and ceremonies with the Tainos or healers, curador/a? </p>
<p>I don't know what to do, which led me to you, and I am looking for guidance and support from the Taino Family. </p>
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Western Pennsylvania Land Acknowledgement Information
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2022-07-20T19:59:23.858Z
Juan Almonte
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10660424871?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10660424871?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a> It is important to rely on accurate and reliable information when crafting a land acknowledgement. As member of the COUNCIL OF THREE RIVERS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER it is my responsibility to assist individuals and organizations in our region in the task of crafting accurate and relevant land acknowledgements that correspond to…</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10660424871?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10660424871?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a>It is important to rely on accurate and reliable information when crafting a land acknowledgement. As member of the COUNCIL OF THREE RIVERS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER it is my responsibility to assist individuals and organizations in our region in the task of crafting accurate and relevant land acknowledgements that correspond to western Pennsylvania. This post is intended to present the appropriate information needed to create a good land acknowledgement for our area of the state.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><br/> The region of western Pennsylvania has been the home of a wide variety of Indigenous people since at least as early as 19,000 years ago, a fact evidenced by the archeological material discovered at the site in Washington County known as Medowcroft Rock Shelter. Over the centuries other Native peoples hunted and later settled in this region. These included the Monongahela and the Moundbuilders. In the more recent historical past the most relevant Indigenous peoples occupying the states of Pennsylvania and New York was a group of over 15 nations belonging to the Iroquoian language family. These nations included a formal league of five of those tribes. This confederation of five Iroquoian-speaking nations was called the Haudenosaunee (Longhouse People). The league included the Seneca of western Pennsylvania, as well as the Cayuga, Onondaga and Oneida of the Finger Lakes in north central New York state and the Mohawks of the Adirondaks in eastern New York state. This was a very powerful Indigenous alliance whose articles of confederation are reputed to have provided an important model for the framers of the original United States constitution. The Seneca of western Pennsylvania were one of the principal member nations of the Haudenosaunee confederacy. They were the caretakers of a geographical territory that Included Allegheny County as well as lands stretching as far north as Erie County and the Niagara River on the Canada border, and as far south as Washington County, as far west as the center of the state of Ohio and as far east as the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania and the Genesee River in New York state.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">One of the most prominent historical Seneca leaders of the 1700's was a chief by the name of Guyasuta. His main settlement was located at the site now occupied by yhe town of Sharpsburg, PA on the north bank of the Allegheny River where he is now honored by a medium-sized statue erected at a prominent intersection. A near-by Boyscout camp also bears his name. A much larger statue of Guyasuta, accompanied by an equally monumental one of George Washington stands at a prominent spot on Grandview Avenue in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Mount Washington. Another important Seneca leader who lived in this area of western Pennsylvania in the 1700's was a clan mother known as Alliquippa. Her village stood at the site now occupied by the town of Mckeesport. She was important enough to demand that Washington stop at her settlement and pay his respects when he arrived here as a very young man on an errand in behalf of the governor of the Virginia colony. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Another important Seneca leader in this area was a man called Tanacharison, known to the English as "Half King". He lived for a time at a village on the Ohio river, called Logstown.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The Haudenosaunee confederacy had a policy that allowed other tribes to request asylum in their vast territory if they approached in peace and respectfully. A number of tribal groups took advantage of that policy as they were deprived of their own lands by European colonies. One of the earliest of these was an Iroquoian people called the Tuscaroras who were forced out of their homes in the Carolinas and travelled north to New York state. They were welcomed in as a sixth member of the Haudenosaunee confederacy and were settled in the Finger Lakes region. Later several non-Iroquoian tribes also reached out to the Haudenosaunee confederacy for protection. The Algonquian-language people called the Lenapi (Delawares) were driven from their homes in New Jersey. The state of Delaware and the Philadelphia region by English settlers. They travelled west into central Pennsylvania, but were also chased out of there by colonist-perpetrated massacres and violence along the Susquehanna River. The exiles crossed the Allegheny mountains and entered Seneca territory. Since the Lenapi exiles were not Iroquoians they were not allowed to become full members of the confederation like the Tuscaroras, but the Senecas still allowed them to settle at sites along the Allegheny River. One of the most important Lenapi villages of the 1700's was Shanopin's Town on the southern bank of the river at the site now occupied by the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Lawrenceville in Arsenal Park. Another Algonquian-language tribe also was allowed by the Senecas to maintain a presence in western Pennsylvania. These people were the Shawnee. There was a strong Shawnee presence at the village of Kittaning on the Allegheny River several miles north of Pittsburgh. Another extremely important Indigenous community inhabited by Shawnees was the aforementioned community of Logstown located on the Ohio River a few miles beyond the Allegheny and Monongahela confluence. This other village, existed at a site close to the present-day communities of Ambridge and Alliquippa just north of Pittsburgh. It was predominantly composed of Shawnee residents. Another important Shawnee/Lenapi village was situated near the present-day community of Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania and was called Kushkushking.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Many Senecas, Shawnees and Lenapi played an important role in support of the French and against the English during the French And Indian War. Although a number of other members of the Haudenosaunee confederacy, such as the Mohawk remained English allies, a large number of the Native people of this region considered the English settlers to be their greatest threat since their only interest appeared to be simply the acquisition of Indigenous land at any cost. The English king assured the Natives that English soldiers would protect them from English colonial intrusion in principle, but that seldom worked in practice. The settlers just kept on coming west like a tidal wave across the Allegheny mountains. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The English won the French And Indian War and the Native people of western PA lost more land. The English soldiers made a half-hearted effort at keeping the English settlers out of the remaining Native lands but it really did not work. Finally the English colonists declared themselves independent fron England and launched a revolutionary war. Again the Native people attempted to save what little they had left by siding with the crown but, of course, that turned out to be the losing side once more. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">At the end of the Revolutionary War the new nation called the United States took away most of the lands that remained in Haudenosaunee control and destroyed the political power of the confederacy. All the Shawnees and Lenapis were driven out of our region and west into Ohio and Indiana. The Senecas were left with a number of tiny reservations in New York state and only one in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania reservation was called Corn planter's Grant. It was located high up north on the Allegheny River in Warren County not far from the New York state border. That Seneca community survived well into the Twentieth Century. Then in 1965 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed a flood control project along most of the length of the stream that included a dam built right next to the Warren County reservation. The dam created a large reservoir that almost completely oblitrated the Conrnplanter's Grant reservation. The residents of the community were forcibly moved out of the area under protest and against their will. They were relocated north across the state border in the New York state Allegany Seneca Indian Reservation miles from their native Pennsylvania home. There is no longer a Native reservation in the state of Pennsylvania.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Over the years since the last of the original Native people of our region were dispossessed of their lands some of them settled in the non-Native rural and urban communities of the area, especially the city of Pittsburgh. Local industrial jobs also attracted Native people from other places. Enventually western Pennsylvania became the home of a variety of families and individuals belonging to or descended from Native tribes from all over the continent. By the late 1960's a number of urban Native families in the city of Pittsburgh had organized themselves into an urban Indigenous center called the COUNCIL OF THREE RIVERS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER. This organization developed into a social service agency that now serves Indigenous and non-Indigenous residents in the region. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Since very ancient times the Senecas perceived their relationship as a people with the natural environment that was their home as a sacred understanding. Now the residents of the three main surviving Seneca reservations in the neighboring regions of western New York state have established a coallition with non-Indigenous people living in these areas. The coalition is called DEFEND O:HIYO' which uses the Seneca language name of the Allegheny River. This coallition is dedicated to protecting the area of western New York and western Pennsylvania from the destructive consequences of fossil fuel acquisition and transportation. Most of the environmental activism of this organization targets fossil fuel pipelines and fracking.</p>
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Creation Narration of the Seneca People
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2021-10-26T22:23:51.241Z
Juan Almonte
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<dd><div class="xg_user_generated"><p><span><strong>THE LEGEND OF SKY WOMAN</strong></span><br/> The Onondowaga people who are known to the world as the Seneca Tribe are an Indigenous people whose homeland is the the NorthEastern region of what is now the United States. At the height of their history they controlled a territory that included areas of western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and western New York state all along the southern shore of Lake Ontario.<br/> The Onondowaga tell a story that remembers a time when there was no solid or dry land available on the earth. Everything was water as far as the eye could see from horizon to horizon. In the water, aquatic animals such as fish, beavers, river otters, water snakes and water birds dwelled. In the air the flying creatures such as geese and hawks circled endlessly on extended wings<br/> Surmounting it all the dome of the sky arched overhead. On the uper surface of that sky dome there existed an universe of celestial life. There was a village there where the sky people lived in their elm-bark longhouses just like the Seneca People of later times would. At the center of the sky world there grew a mighty tree from whose branches hung bright flowers and fruit which sparkled at night, and these were the stars.<br/> The chief of the sky people had a wife and she was expecting a child. One day the woman approached her husband and placing her hand gently on her great belly she informed him that she had grown curious about what was under the great tree at the center of the sky and wished him to use his prodigious power and magic to uproot it so she could take a look beneath it.<br/> The chief reluctantly agreed to his wife's request and placing his arms around the trunk of the tree, pulled it out by the roots. There soon was a huge hole in the sky where the tree had been. The woman leanned over its edge and was amazed by what she saw down there, all that water and no land. She was careless and slipped, falling through the hole.<br/> <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739637499?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739637499?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739638663?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739638663?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p>The woman fell helplessly and would have perished but was unexpectedly saved by a great flock of geese who spread their enormous wings together and held her gently aloft lowering her slowly.</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739639080?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739639080?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><br/> The living creatures beneath realized that the woman still was in great peril, having no place to land and so they all decided to help. First they called upon the great primordial turtle to rise from the depths of the water and allow its enormous shell to emerge above the surface. Now there was a solid surface upon which the geese could gently place the woman.<br/> <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739649477?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739649477?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739650698?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739650698?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><br/> <br/> Fortunately for Sky Woman, she happened to be wearing a leather thong around her neck from which hung a pouch full of plant seeds of all kinds. With these Sky Woman would have the chance to populate her new home with all the plants needed for a proper earth surface. Unfortunately seeds can only sprout in soil and a turtle's hard shell is hardly an appropriate place to plant anything.<br/> The creatures of the water decided that one of them should swim down to the bottom and bring up a bit of mud from down there. Sky Woman could use her magic to spread that mud accross the whole surface of the giant turtle shell and create a place where plants could grow. First the big beaver with his strong flat paddle tail attemped the task but he ran out of breath half way down and had to return quickly to the surface, gasping for breath. The duck, the river otter and the loon also all tried but failed just like the beaver for the same reason, almost drowning in the process.</p>
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<p>After several other water animals tried and failed, the tiny muskrat declared that he would try. The others laughed and ridiculed him, exclaiming that how did he think he could accomplish a task so difficult that it had stymied others much stronger than him. But he persisted and dove down. To everybody's surprise, the muskrat re-emerged sometime later with a bit of mud held against his chest by his two tiny front paws.</p>
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<p>Once the wet soil was placed at the center of the turtle shell, Sky Woman began to walk around it and with each circle the patch of mud grew and grew until it covered the whole surface establishing a firm base for the creation of a motherland. The Seneca people call this motherland Turtle Island and it is known by others by the name of North America.</p>
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Indoantillean language survival among borikuas
tag:indigenouscaribbean.ning.com,2021-07-01:2030313:Topic:231214
2021-07-01T17:16:19.263Z
Juan Almonte
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<p>Indoantillean language survival among borikuas</p>
<p>Note by: Huana Naboli Martínez, July 1, 2021.</p>
<p>It has been said that the native language of Boriken was lost, as native people were "exterminated". But, recent studies have probed that native people of Boriken survive and thrive till today, eventough they had somewhat get mixed. Language was not an exception. So indigenois language survive beyond what was known or exposed before. It has been said that we boricuas do not talk a…</p>
<p>Indoantillean language survival among borikuas</p>
<p>Note by: Huana Naboli Martínez, July 1, 2021.</p>
<p>It has been said that the native language of Boriken was lost, as native people were "exterminated". But, recent studies have probed that native people of Boriken survive and thrive till today, eventough they had somewhat get mixed. Language was not an exception. So indigenois language survive beyond what was known or exposed before. It has been said that we boricuas do not talk a good spanish. But, as recent studies on ethnolinguistics has exposed,it looks that we boricuas do struggle with Spanish because we talk a mixture o castillean language with native language. That language struggling can be traduce also to a struggle with the Castillean grammar. Some time ago, I presented a research on ethnolinguistics made in the island. The research exposed that many of what boricuas say in the actual time is indigenous language. Many words that we as borikuas talk, our way of speech, has an indigenous root. But, many of those words that are native language vocabulary was not consider even a language by the 'Academia de la Lengua Espanola', it was not Spanish nor a wrong way of talk. Studies have revealed that many of those words and wasy o speech are indigenous words and ways of talking. So people grew thinking they talk a bad version of castillean, when they were really talking indigenous language. I have been working on the etymology of more than 300 words, many of those were included in a book published in 2018. The book, "Códigos Lingüísticos de la Chiba Borikua", include a series of essays about ethnolinguistics in the Archipelago known today as Puerto Rico, and a dictionary of words with etymology. It includes the analysis of words already known to be indoantillean, and of many words that were not recorded in any spaniard chronicles, and had not been identified as indigenous in previous dictionaries. I share this information here, as a start for a future discussion , which i titled: Indoantillean language survival among borikuas. I hope this note will motivate that discussion. We have more indigenous language among ourselves as boricuas than what have been said. We have a first etymological dictionary. We will work on another book o Grammar and a text for revitalizing the language. If any reader want additional information on the topic, you can contact me at hnaboli@yahoo.com .</p>
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Are we really polytheistic?
tag:indigenouscaribbean.ning.com,2021-06-02:2030313:Topic:230996
2021-06-02T18:27:22.381Z
Juan Almonte
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<p>Hello all!</p>
<p>I am new to learning Taino spirituality and I'm questioning if we are really polytheistic. Growing up in Boriken that's what I learned but if Yaya is the Supreme Spirit, wouldn't that make us monotheistic? Yes, we have cemis but the way I'm seeing it is that cemis are like the saints for Catholics and Catholics are considered monotheistic. </p>
<p>Hello all!</p>
<p>I am new to learning Taino spirituality and I'm questioning if we are really polytheistic. Growing up in Boriken that's what I learned but if Yaya is the Supreme Spirit, wouldn't that make us monotheistic? Yes, we have cemis but the way I'm seeing it is that cemis are like the saints for Catholics and Catholics are considered monotheistic. </p>
Hoping to connect with folks
tag:indigenouscaribbean.ning.com,2021-02-06:2030313:Topic:212574
2021-02-06T03:46:49.847Z
Juan Almonte
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Hello,<br />
<br />
I am doing some research around people who are interested in or are already decolonizing their spirituality and would love to talk to you about your journey and beliefs. I am an artist and on the same journey, so much of my curiosity comes from wanting to connect with like minded people. If you're interested in exchanging emails let me know and I can tell you more about myself and my work.<br />
<br />
Wishing you all the best,<br />
<br />
Giancarlo
Hello,<br />
<br />
I am doing some research around people who are interested in or are already decolonizing their spirituality and would love to talk to you about your journey and beliefs. I am an artist and on the same journey, so much of my curiosity comes from wanting to connect with like minded people. If you're interested in exchanging emails let me know and I can tell you more about myself and my work.<br />
<br />
Wishing you all the best,<br />
<br />
Giancarlo
Indigenous Futures
tag:indigenouscaribbean.ning.com,2020-09-26:2030313:Topic:138391
2020-09-26T21:10:04.688Z
Juan Almonte
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<p>Hello, I am from Guyana but am working on a regional story project and would love to be in touch with any Caribbean people who are looking at Caribbean Indigenous Futures/Futurism. Is there any group, books, persons known for this? Hahom.</p>
<p>Hello, I am from Guyana but am working on a regional story project and would love to be in touch with any Caribbean people who are looking at Caribbean Indigenous Futures/Futurism. Is there any group, books, persons known for this? Hahom.</p>
freed taliban terrorists
tag:indigenouscaribbean.ning.com,2020-09-12:2030313:Topic:137324
2020-09-12T02:30:16.783Z
Juan Almonte
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<p>This is happening now</p>
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<p>This is happening now</p>
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