Takahi relatives

On Monday, October 10, 2022 I had the honor of participating as an invited guest speaker at the sixth annual celebration of INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY on the grounds of PennTreaty Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.…

This weekend September 24 and 25 2022, we here at the Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center are celebrating our 43rd annual pow wow at our Singing Winds site in the Dorseyville community north of Pittsburgh…

On September 22 2022 Pittsburgh's BREATHE PROJECT hosted two events of the week-long CLEAN ENERGY JUSTICE CONVERGENCE. The events on that Thursday featured two important encounters with efforts by a Washington…

Today Wednesday, September 21, 2022, I attended a mini pow wow celebrated at Schenley Plaza in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA. The event was sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh in collaboration with our own COUNCIL OF THREE RIVERS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER.…

Marie Helene Laraque

In the decade of the 1970's when Native American activism was reaching its high point in the United States two…

Council Of Three Rivers American Indian Center

In 1998 The CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania opened a new section of its public exhibit dedicated exclusively to the Indigenous people of the United States. This new exhibit is called the…

The amazingly talented and socially conscious U.S. alternative rock band PORTUGAL. THE MAN performed at the Petersen Events Center here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania last evening. I was honored to present the Indigenous land acknowledgement…

We met on November 21 2021 at the main site of the COUNCIL OF THREE RIVERS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER. Our…

On Saturday November 6 we celebrated the second Day of the Ancestors ceremony in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The ceremony was officiated by Pittsburgh Behike Dayvanna Caraballo Mitchell-Schreiner. She was assisted by Behike Miguel Sague Jr.

Members of the local community participated.…

  In the 1980's the United States anthropologist Dennis Tedlock completed an important piece of literary work whose creation illustrates some very important facts about real language. Tedlock's task was to take a text written in the fifteenth century version of the Quiche Maya language and translate it to English.…

On Sunday October 31 the lead Caney Circle behike of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dayvanna Caraballo Mitchell Schreiner guided the official 2021 Taino DAY OF THE ANCESTORS ceremony on the grounds of the Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center.…

It was an honor for me to attend one of the days of Indigenous Peoples Day weekend celebration PoWow on Randals Island, New York City Oct 10 2021. I was accompanied by NYC Caney Circle behike Tilou Balan (Lil Wolf).…

Takahi Datiaono  (Greetings My relatives ) 

I live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At one time the whole western region  of this state (including Pittsburgh) was the sovereign territory of the Onödowa’ga:’ who are known to the world as the Senecas. The Senecas left a legacy of their presence in the Pittsburgh area in the form of place names that honor their history here such as Seneca Valley.  Also individual Seneca historical figures such as Chief Guyasutta, who lived in what is now…

Takahi my relatives

This year the German children's music recording artists Pit Budde and Josephine Kronfli, who originally released and sold hundreds of copies of their version of our much-loved Taino song to Atabey, finally gave us credit for the authorship of that song. Several months ago they officially listed the song in the…

The behikes of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania congregation of the CANEY INDIGENOUS SPIRITUAL CIRCLE, Dayvanna Caraballo Mitchell-Schreiner and Miguel Sague led the September 19, 2021 celebration of the Full Moon and Autumn Equinox ceremony on the grounds of the Council Of Three Rivers American Indian Center. WE were blessed by the presence of a number of local residents to our gathering.

Our Maya…

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…