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"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea." ~John Ciardi
Haga “click” aquí para ver el artículo en español. The film I share below is from the TED website. Although I have issue with some of the ideas they propose as well as some of the support they receive, they do have some wonderful presentations that open your eyes to thoughts and ideas you may [...]
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Haga clicK AQUÍ para leer este ensayo en español. Every November, on the fourth Thursday of the month, the US celebrates Thanksgiving Day with food, drink, parades and sports. Families gather together, whether they like each other or not, to eat, drink and be merry. But this merry-making is not to be found everywhere for [...]
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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
Filed under: All My Relations~Mitakuye Oyasin, Growing up, history, Indigenous American, Personal/Spiritual Growth, Self determination, Taino, The Good Red Road, Walking in Beauty | Tagged: accountability, American Celebrations, Columbus, Columbus Day, Discovery of America, ignorance, Indigenous, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, irresposability, native views, stupid people, taino resurgance movement | 5 Comments »
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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Further Afrocentric criticism dissected… 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…and what?!? . Because these questions are valid and others may have them as well, I sought to respond via email as well as [...]
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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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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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…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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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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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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