🇯🇲 The Hummingbird Tribe!
Maroons & Yamaye Taino descendants; keepers of Yamaye traditions, Protectors of Ancestral spaces & the Voice of our Ancestors
The panel comprised Richardo Aiken (Caribbean Development Bank), Kasike Robert Pairman and Kasikeíani Ronalda Pairman of the Yamaye Guani Taino Peoples of Jamaica, and Chief Ricardo Hernandez of the Santa Rosa First Peoples Community and Chair of COIP. They underscored the importance of political will, meaningful and resourced participation, and concrete progress in protecting rights, territories and autonomy.
A group of people who have identified themselves as Jamaican Taínos are calling on the Government to legitimise their status as indigenous people amid concerns that plans that began in 2022 to do so have stalled.
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Mabrika Dayukunu ( Greetings My People), We started the clean up of our celebration space and we share with you the process as the day (Thursday May 26) draws closer. We continue to walk with the guidance of our ancestors each day to ensure that we walk in gratitude and ceremony.
United we stood against the privatization of our Taino indigenous sacred Sites. It's our responsibility to ensure that 7 generations from now these sacred sites of our ancestors are still here to learn from. It's another save!
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Yamaye Taino stand United as indigenous peoples against the privatization and transfer of ownership of the Caguana Ceremonial Center to the municipality of Utuado. Vote no on RCS45! #PuertoRico#IndigenousPeoples#taino