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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Cultural Dissonance?

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Nanu

Note:  The following post is a long one. I hope you feel like reading!   ~N I am a modern Caribbean Indian woman; a mixture of Taino, European and African descent.  However, it is my Taino Indian heritage that I choose to follow, learn and endorse.  The existence of my Taino ancestry has been covered up, [...]

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Better words never spoken…

Posted on September 29, 2008 by Nanu

To all those who look only look at the book’s cover…

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