The Taino community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania celebrated the Full Moon Ceremony in keeping with the traditions of the Caney Indigenous Spiritual Circle. The ritual was officiated by the behike bo of the Caney Circle, Kasike Guatu Iri, the head of Lancaster's Yukayeke Manikato Taino community. …

The Caney Circle behikes of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area gathered to celebrate our August Full Moon ceremony at the Singing Winds site of the COUNCIL OF THREE RIVERS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER this past Saturday.

The ceremony was officiated by our lead behike here in the city, Dayvanna (Caraballo) Mitchell Schreiner. She was assisted…

BEAUTIFUL guanara sweat lodge on Tuesday August 3 at the home of my fellow behike Tilou (Urban Divers) "Li'l Wolf" in Queens, New York. Such a pleasure to be again with my spiritual brother Max Guazabara and his wife Namibia and their little son Huracan. Also was a pleasure to sweat with Kasike Roman Guaraguaorix...and it was an honor to meet our brother Tito and his three kids. What a sacred afternoon with Taino family and other good…

Takahi my relatives

On Saturday July 31 2021 I had the honor of participating in a great block party in front of the GALERIA DEL BARRIO art gallery in East Harlem, New York City. The block party was part of a multi-week exhibit at the gallery which featured the work of the Boricua artist Miguel Luciano. Miguel was concluding a three-year residency at the METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART. The museum sponsored his exhibit at the East Harlem gallery and the block party…

Takahi My Relatives 

The behikes of the CANEY INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL CIRCLE  celebrated our annual retreat this year on the grounds of the Singing Winds Site of the Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center, on the outskirts of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

A number of the behikes who were able to travel to the gathering this year camped out on the Indian Center grounds.

As part of the three-day event, we…

Our Seneca Indigenous friends of western New York and western Pennsylvania are fighting to save the sacred waters of the Allegheny River, which in their language is known as the OHI:YO'. This past Saturday July 10 2021 I spent the day with two fellow Tainos and a wonderful non-Taino woman-of-strength ally at a special action camp-out in the beautiful Allegheny National Forest of northwestern PA close to the Seneca Nation of Indians…

My brothers and sisters we now have the long-promised members-only wooden medallions featuring the official logo of the CANEY INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL CIRCLE.

These are only available to fully enrolled members of the Caney Circle. Wearing this sacred symbol that represents the…