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		<title>Why We Should NOT Celebrate Columbus Day</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A point by point response to the OSIA.org flyer,Why We Should Celebrate Columbus Day, prepared by: The Order of the Sons of Italy in America in Washington, D.C.  Telephone: 202/547-2900  Web: www.osia.org ~ Columbus Day recognizes the achievements of a great Renaissance explorer who founded the first permanent European settlement in the New World. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tainowoman.com&#038;blog=1049623&#038;post=3626&#038;subd=tainowoman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nanas and Beans and Heads, oh my!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 14:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further Afrocentric criticism dissected&#8230; Again, I received a response regarding my thoughts on the topic of Afrocentrism.  These were posted in the comment section of the essay titled They came before Columbus&#8230;and what?!? . Because these questions are valid and others may have them as well, I sought to respond via email as well as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tainowoman.com&#038;blog=1049623&#038;post=3278&#038;subd=tainowoman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the spirit of Hatuey</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has come to my attention that my words have caused a flurry of confusion, anger, criticism and gossip regarding the thoughts and feelings I have shared about the UCTP and the behavior of its president, Roberto Borrero. Of course, I was not included in the emailed gossip and criticism of my person, which goes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tainowoman.com&#038;blog=1049623&#038;post=3145&#038;subd=tainowoman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a good witch or a bad witch?~ Segregation in Native American Spirituality</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the recent deaths occurring in an Arizona sweat lodge, three so far, many Indigenous Americans are rabidly repeating the mantras &#8220;That&#8217;s what you get when you mess with things you have no right to mess with&#8221;, &#8220;Non-natives have no right to participate, let alone conduct sacred native ceremonies&#8221; and &#8220;The spirits are clearly expressing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tainowoman.com&#038;blog=1049623&#038;post=2374&#038;subd=tainowoman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Van Sertima&#8217;s Mummies or The Fruits of Careless Research&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Reply to a Critic Recently, I received a response to the book review I posted on Ivan Van Sertima&#8217;s, They Came Before Columbus.  This person was very passionate about defending the Afrocentric version of alternative history and emailed me an excerpt from his later book, Early America Revisited, in which Van Sertima replies to his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tainowoman.com&#038;blog=1049623&#038;post=1858&#038;subd=tainowoman&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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