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The United Confederation of Taino People
© 1998 - UCTPU.S. Regional Coordinating Office
PO Box 4515
New York, NY 10163
Tel: 1 (212) 604‚4186
Fax: 1 (775) 640‚1358
Email: la_voz_taino@yahoo.com
Taino Web sites
Jatibonicù Taino Tribal Nation of Borikén
Jatibonicù Taino Tribal Band of New Jersey
Letter to United Native America from UCTP
(Oct 2001)
Taino Leaders Sign An Official Declaration of Confederacy
(4 January 1998)
The Taino People's Resource List
We are the Taino People not the Arawak People
The following is a list of Taino organizations, groups and individuals in the United States and the Caribbean that provide educational activities for the general public such as craft-making, artist workshops, lectures, story-telling, dance, music performances, and newsletter publication. We have reproduced the information sent by groups and individuals as we received it, only editing for purposes of space. Despite our efforts to contact as many organizations and individuals as possible, it is in no way a comprehensive list. We hope that you find it useful.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
One Bowling Green
New York NY 10004
Contact: Mr. Jorge Estevez - (212) 514-3716
FOR RESOURCES ON TAINO BOOKS, ARTICLES AND ARCHIVES:
THE TAINO NATIONAL LIBRARY & MUSEM
Taino National Archives Section
527 Mulberry Street
Millville, NJ 08332
The New York Public Library
Fifth Avenue @ 41st Street
New York NY 10017
Tel: (212) 930-0800
Huntington Free Library and Reading Room
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: (607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
TAINO TRIBAL AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Roberto "Mucaro" Borrero
(917) 334-5658
or
email: uctp_ny@yahoo.com
An historian, artist, musician and activist, Mr. Borrero's work is dedicated to the preservation and continuance of Taino cultural and spirital heritage. Mr. Borrero has been a consultant for exhibitions, film documentaries and has lectured, performed and exhibited his art internationally.
C a c i b a J a g u a
Taino Indigenous Performance and Presentation Troupe
10 Ocean Parkway #B10
Brooklyn NY 11218
NY Tel: (718) 871-5650
CT Tel: (203) 237-8708
Based on Pre- and Post-Columbian Taino, and Carib Traditional Social Music called Areyto, all presentations include educational narratives and are originally composed and choreographed. Members handcraft all of the musical instruments, regalia and adornments used during the presentations.
El Consejo General de Tainos Borincanos Inc.
HC 645 Buzon 5075
Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico 00976
US Tel: (212) 604-4186
PR Tel: (787) 748-2228
This Taino organization, works for the "defense and diffusion of Taino" culture through public education, cultural and environmental projects, as well as networking with other Indigenous Peoples throughout the Americas. The Council also hosts a yearly Taino Spiritual Gathering and Congress in Puerto Rico.
Expressions, Inc.
#15 Calle Buenaventura Quinones
Guanica, Puerto Rico 00653
Tel: (787) 821-4723
Our non-profit, apolitical, philanthropic organization, is institutionalizing the "First Indigenous Meeting," an homage to our first culture and race: the indigenous, our Taino race. This great homage will be accompanied by the "First Indigenous Craft Fair" and the "Day of Taino Affirmation." We will inaugurate this event October 10, 11 and 12 of this year, and will continue to offer homage to our great culture and race on the same date in the years to come.
Mr. Bobby Gonzalez
688 Cortlandt Avenue
Bronx NY 10451
Tel: (718) 665-9855
Bobby Gonzalez is a Native writer, speaker, storyteller, and poet. He provides storytelling programs, poetry readings, lectures, and slide shows for all ages from pre-Kindergarten to adult. He speaks on Taino and other Native American cultures from North, South and Central America.
Ms. Maria de los Angeles Morales, PWCC
19 West Golf Club Lane
Paoli PA 19301
Tel: (610) 647-4870
Professional artist.
Works in a variety of media: e.g., oil, gouache, watercolor, and clay and direct stone sculpture. Her work includes Taino Indian subjects, based on her extensive research of Taino culture and mythology. Plans to develop a lecture on her interpretations of Taino life and petroglyphs in her artwork.
Presencia Taina TV
PO Box 570
New York NY 10029
rjhnyc@yahoo.com
Fax/Tel. (212) 534-6004
Prescencia Taina.TV serves the Caribbean indigenous community as well as other indigenous communities. To date, we have brought our programs to many places: elementary schools and universities, public and private institutions, parks and recreational facilities and public and private self-help organizations. We do community outreach to service the old along with the young.
The majority of our constituents come from low income neighborhoods and communities that receive very little contact with the artistic cultural educational circles. We introduce these elements that have otherwise separated from each other to become whole once again. The response from these participants has been overwhelming, with an increased demand for our services.
This website works to strengthen Taino Indian cultural arts collaborative workshop projects to promote and preserve the ancestral Caribbean Indigenous Cultural Heritage via supplementary and alternative Native American educational arts programs.
The work accomplished throughout the years has been consistent with our Taino mission statement (Presencia Taina), which is to promote the educational expansion of our Caribbean community and its rich indigenous cultural arts heritage.
Prescencia Taina.TV artistic presentations, exhibitions and workshops have generated interest and involvement from the Caribbean community and other Pre Hispanic indigenous circles. Our Prescencia Taino.TV program has served to inspire future cultural artists in developing their talents by drawing upon their ancestral cultural traditions.
The Hummingbird BBS Database
An Educational, Cultural and Religious Protectorate Non-Profit Taino Native American Corporation based in the State of New Jersey. Mission Statement: To promote and protect the rights of the Taino Indigenous people of the Caribbean and United States diaspora at an international level.
Publications: La Revista De La Indierra Taina/ The Taino Indian-Land Review A Quarterly Bi-lingual Spanish/English Newsletter of the TITC Inc.
The Taino Documentation Project: (A TITC Umbrella Project)
(1) The Taino Genealogy
(2) The Taino Language
(3) The Taino National Museum and Library
(4) The Taino Elders Documentation
(5) The Taino National Directory
(6) The Colibri Hummingbird Taino BBS a Computer Taino Indigenous Archive Database
The Hummingbird BBS Database online Service Number: (609) 825-7922
Taller Cabachuelas
Torrecillas, Buzon 5986
Morovis, Puerto Rico 00687
Using ancient motifs and methods, the Cheverez family continues the ancestral tradition of Taino pottery making.
Is a Taino educational research group that also produces a Taino informative Newsletter called La Concha - The Conch Shell.
War Party Film and Video Productions
63 Avenue A
New York NY 10009
Tel: (917) 875-5302
E-Mail: WarProd@aol.com
An independent, native-owned and operated film and video production company. Coverage includes indigenous cultures of North, Central and South American and the Caribbean.
PO Box 52 Kingsbridge Station
5517 Broadway
Bronx, New York 10463 USA
Tel: (917) 490-8303
Fax: (817) 579-3376
E-Mail: mmcrooke@aol.com
The Taino
Taino LegendsThe Rainbow
The forest dwarfs had caught Yobuenahuaboshka in an ambush and cut off his head. The head bumped its way back to the land of the Cashinahuas. Although it had learned to jump and balance gracefully, nobody wanted a head without a body. "Mother, brothers, countrymen," it said with a sigh, "Why do you reject me? Why are you ashamed of me?" To stop the complaints and get rid of the head, the mother proposed that it should change itself into something, but the head refused to change into what already existed. The head thought, dreamed, figured. The moon didn't exist. The rainbow didn't exist. It asked for seven little balls of thread of all colors. It took aim and threw the balls into the sky one after the other. The balls got hooked up beyond the clouds; the threads gently unraveled toward the earth. Before going up, the head warned: "Whoever doesn't recognize me will be punished. When you see me up there, say: 'There's the high and handsome Yobuenahuaboshka!'" Then it plaited the seven hanging threads together and climbed up the rope to the sky. That night a white gash appeared for the first time among the stars. A girl raised her eyes and asked in astonishment: "What's that?" Immediately a red parrot swooped upon her, gave a sudden twirl, and pricked her between the legs with his sharp-pointed tail. The girl bled. From that moment, women bleed when the moon says so. Next morning the cord of seven colors blazed in the sky. A man pointed his finger at it. "Look, look! How extraordinary!" He said it and fell down. And that was the first time that someone died. Night
The sun never stopped shining and the Cashinahua Indians didn't know the sweetness of rest. Badly in need of peace, exhausted by so much light, they borrowed night from the mouse. It got dark, but the mouse's night was hardly long enough for a bite of food and a smoke in front of the fire. The people had just settled down in their hammocks when morning came. So they tried out the tapir's night. With the tapir's night they could sleep soundly and they enjoyed the long and much-deserved rest. But when they awoke, so much time had passed that undergrowth from the hills had invaded their lands and destroyed their houses. After a big search they settled for the night of the armadillo. They borrowed it from him and never gave it back. Deprived of night, the armadillo sleeps during the daytime. The Stars
By playing the flute love is declared, or the return of the hunters announced. With the strains of the flute, the Waiwai Indians summon their guests. For the Tukanos, the flute weeps; for the Kalinas it talks, because it's the trumpet that shouts. On the banks of the Negro River, the flute confirms the power of the men. Flutes are sacred and hidden, and any women who approaches deserves death. In very remote times, when the women had the sacred flutes, men toted firewood and water and prepared the cassava bread. As the men tell it, the sun got indignant at the sight of women running the world, so he dropped into the forest and fertilized a virgin by slipping leaf juices between her legs. Thus was born Jurupari. Jurupari stole the sacred flutes and gave them to the men. He taught the men to hide them and defend them and to celebrate ritual feasts without women. He also told them the secrets they were to transmit to their male children. When Jurupari's mother found where the sacred flutes were hidden, she condemned him to death; and with the bits that remained of him she made the stars of the sky. Love
In the Amazonian jungle, the first woman and the first man looked at each other with curiosity. It was odd what they had between their legs. "Did they cut yours off?" asked the man. "No," she said, "I've always been like that." He examined her close up. He scratched his head. There was an open wound there. He said: "Better not eat any cassava or bananas or any fruit that splits when it ripens. I'll cure you. Get in the hammock and rest." She obeyed. Patiently she swallowed herb teas and let him rub on pomades and unguents. She had to grit her teeth to keep from laughing when he said to her, "Don't worry." She enjoyed the game, although she was beginning to tire of fasting in a hammock. The memory of fruit made her mouth water. One evening the man came running through the glade. He jumped with excitement and cried, "I found it!" He had just seen the male monkey curing the female monkey in the arm of a tree. "That's how it's done," said the man, approaching the woman. When the long embrace ended, a dense aroma of flowers and fruit filled the air. From the bodies lying together came unheard of vapors and glowings, and it was all so beautiful that the suns and the gods died of embarrassment. The Rivers and the Sea
There was no water in the forest of he Chocos. God knew that the ant had it and asked her for some. She didn't want to listen. god tightened her waist, making it permanently slim, and the ant exuded the water she kept in her belly. "Now tell me where you got it." The ant led God to a tree that had nothing unusual about it. Frogs and men with axes worked on it for four days and four nights, but the tree wouldn't fall. A liana kept it from touching the ground. God ordered the toucan, "Cut it." The toucan couldn't, and for that was sentenced to eat fruit whole. The macaw cut the liana with his hard, sharp beak. When the water tree fell, the sea was born from its trunk and the rivers from its branches. All of the water was sweet. It was the Devil that kept chucking fistfuls of salt into it. The Bat
When time was yet in the cradle, there was no uglier creature in the world than the bat. The bat went up to heaven to look for God. He didn't say, "I'm bored with being hideous. Give me colored feathers." No. He said, "Please give me feathers, I'm dying of cold." But God had not a single feather left over. "Each bird will give you a feather," he decided. Thus the bat got the white feather of the dove and the green one of the parrot, the iridescent one of the hummingbird, the pink one of the flamingo, the red of the cardinal's tuft and the blue of the kingfisher's back, the clayey one of the eagle's wing, and the sun feather that burns in the breast of the toucan. The bat, luxuriant with colors and softness, moved between earth and clouds. Wherever he went, the air became pleasant and the birds dumb with admiration. According to the Zapotec peoples, the rainbow was born of the echo of his flight. Vanity puffed out his chest. He acquired a disdainful look and made insulting remarks. The birds called a meeting. Together they flew up to God. "The bat makes fun of us," they complained. "And what's more, we feel cold for lack of the feathers he took." Next day, when the bat shook his feathers in full flight, he suddenly became naked. A rain of feathers fell to earth. He is still searching for them. Blind and ugly, enemy of the light, he lives hidden in caves. He goes out in pursuit of the lost feathers after night has fallen and flies very fast, never stopping because it shames him to be seen. Mosquitos
There were many dead in the Nooktas village. In each dead body there was a hole through which blood had been stolen. The murderer, a child who was already killing before he learned to walk, received his sentence roaring with laughter. They pierced him with lances and he laughingly picked them out of his body like thorns. "I'll teach you to kill me," said the child. He suggested to his executioners that they should light a big bonfire and throw him into it. His ashes scattered through the air, anxious to do harm, and thus the first mosquitos started to fly. Honey
Honey was in flight from his two sisters-in-law. They had thrown him out of the hammock several times. They came after him night and day. They was him and it made their mouths water. Only in dreams did they succeed in touching him, licking him, eating him. Their spite kept growing. One morning when the sisters-in-law were bathing, they came upon Honey on the riverbank. They ran and splashed him. Once wet, Honey dissolved. In the Gulf of Paria it's not easy to find the lost honey. You have to climb the trees, ax in hand, open up the trunks, and do a lot of rummaging. The rare honey is eaten with pleasure and with fear, because sometimes it kills. Seeds
Pachacamac, who was a son of the sun, made a man and a woman in the dunes of Lurin. There was nothing to eat, and the man died of hunger. When the woman was bent over searching for roots, the sun entered her and made a child. Jealous, Pachacamac caught the newborn baby and chopped it to pieces. But suddenly he repented, or was scared of the anger of his father, the sun, and scattered about the world the pieces of his murdered brother. From the teeth of the dead baby, corn grew; from the ribs and bones, cassava. The blood made the land fertile, and fruit trees and shade trees rose from the sown flesh. Thus the women and men born on these shores, where it never rains, find food. Tobacco
The Cariri Indians had implored the Grandfather to let them try the flesh of wild pigs, which didn't yet exist. The Grandfather, architect of the Universe, kidnapped the little children of the Cariris and turned them into wild pigs. He created a big tree so that they could escape into the sky. The people pursued the pigs up the tree from branch to branch and managed to kill a few. The Grandfather ordered the ants to bring down the tree. When it fell, the people suffered broken bones. Ever since that great fall, we all have divided bones and so are able to bend our fingers and legs or tilt our bodies. With the dead boars a great banquet was made in the village. The people besought the Grandfather to come down from the sky, where he was minding the children saved from the hunt, but he preferred to stay up there. The Grandfather sent tobacco to take his place among men. Smoking, the people talked with God. Dangers
He who made the sun and the moon warned the Tainos to watch out for the dead. In the daytime the dead hid themselves and ate guavas, but at night they went out for a stroll and challenged the living. Dead men offered duels and dead women, love. In the duels they vanished at will; and at the climax of love the lover found himself with nothing in his arms. Before accepting a duel with a man or lying down with a woman, one should feel the belly with one's hand, because the dead have no navels. The lord of the sky also warned the Tainos to watch out even more for people with clothes on. Chief Caicihu fasted for a week and was worthy of his words. "Brief shall be the enjoyment of life," announced the invisible one, he who has a mother but no beginning. "Men wearing clothes shall come, dominate, and kill." Taken from Memory of Fire: Genesis by Eduardo Galeano (Pantheon Books, 1985).
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