Why We Should NOT Celebrate Columbus Day

Posted on October 10, 2010 by Nanu

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

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The conquering of the American Hemisphere and Indian Country~Thoughts on Columbus Day 2010

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Nanu

    The American Indians were defeated because their time was spent arguing amongst themselves instead of uniting to overcome the Europeans. The Europeans came on a mission.  The American Indians never quite understood “United we stand, divided we fall.” The conquering of the American Hemisphere and Indian Country is a topic that has come [...]

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In the spirit of Hatuey

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Nanu

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.

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“Hispanic, Latino or Spanish Origin?” Exploring the 2010 US Census

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Nanu

Haga clic aquí si gustaría leer este artículo en español. This year the US will be conducting a new, 10 year, population count and this brings me to the topic of questions 8 & 9 of the Census: the race and ethnicity questions. We can google and find many a discussion and internet slogan rejecting [...]

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Christianity’s Continued Attack on Indigenous/Non-caucasian People- a rant

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Nanu

I usually don’t slam Christians.  I know many people who follow that faith and they are good people.  There are some times, however, that the magnitude of the stupidity reflected by some christian leaders is just too much to be ignored…

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Are you a good witch or a bad witch?~ Segregation in Native American Spirituality

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Nanu

With the recent deaths occurring in an Arizona sweat lodge, three so far, many Indigenous Americans are rabidly repeating the mantras “That’s what you get when you mess with things you have no right to mess with”, “Non-natives have no right to participate, let alone conduct sacred native ceremonies” and “The spirits are clearly expressing [...]

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Van Sertima’s Mummies or The Fruits of Careless Research…

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Nanu

…Reply to a Critic Recently, I received a response to the book review I posted on Ivan Van Sertima’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 [...]

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Nostalgia Taína

Posted on June 28, 2009 by Nanu

I was thinking about Taíno identity and politics and my mind started to wander to my childhood… I grew up traveling the boricua pow wow trail and I remember…

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A “Voice of Authority”… Part Deux

Posted on June 24, 2009 by Nanu

Although at the present moment we have no Authority on the Taino language, let’s pretend we do.  Imagine  we have a group of people who are recognized as the Authority on the Taino language by a great majority of the Taino people and organizations.  And that this Authority has created the ultimate Taino Dictionary…

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Seeking a leader; the need for a “Voice of Authority” for our dead language

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Nanu

Wisegeek.com states “A dead language is a language which is no longer learned as a native language.“  Wikipedia says that a dead language has no competent speakers and that an extinct language is one that has no speakers at all, be that by language replacement or language evolution.  Examples of these are Modern English having [...]

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