vryblk:Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! I love celebrating my ancestors, my culture and tribe. I want t
vryblk:Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! I love celebrating my ancestors, my culture and tribe. I want to tell my grandparents how much I love them and what an honor it is to be apart of their legacy. I truly value being anArawak Taino and I truly understand and know how wonderful it is being a descendent of BORIQUEN.. I have a lot of resilience and strength in my heart today. As some of you may or may not know my grandparents, the Arawak people of the greater Antilles (present day Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Guyana, Martinique and may other carribean islands) were the first native indigenous people to be colonized by the Spanish regime that was implemented by Christopher Columbus, by way of Queen Isabelle’s Spanish imposition. We suffered a terrible genocide, the many of our women were made pregnant and married to by Spanish conquistadors. We single handily were decimated in population by large amounts, and were forced to assimilate and hide our traditions, language and culture.. Today many people, and especially our youth reclaim our birth right in re identifying who we are as indigenous people. That is why their is a big influx of people refusing to be called “Spanish” “Latino” or “Hispanic. It is also why young Taino people dress in native garb, practice Arawak. And attend pow wow and medicine ceremony.. I think the de colonization of young people is vey beautiful and I am very honored to be apart of the community of indigenous people who no longer have to live in secrecy or fear as many of our grandparents didSo I just wanna say.. Grandparents today is about YOU!!! I love you!Repost: @princessnokia“Arawak” is a language family. It is a deprecated, sometimes offensive term, referring to the Lokono who are not Taino. The Taino Nation still exists, and remains separate from the general population of the Greater and Lesser Antilles. While the denial of ‘Spanish’ or ‘Hispanic’ is quite warranted, non-Black and non-Native mestizxs are refusing to be called ‘Latinx’ because they want to fetishize and appropriate Indigeneity or out of racism if they are simply white.Mestizxs are not Indigenous people. This erases and supplants actual surviving Indigenous peoples and contributes to our genocides. The folks in the photo are not wearing any Native garb at all; this is a fetishitic costume and literally redfacing. Decolonization is also not a metaphor, but refers directly to the unsettling and deoccupation of Indigenous lands by white people, with the Caribbean included. Look here to see more about how Destiny Nicole Frasqueri/Wavy Spice/Princess Nokia was proven to be a fraud. -- source link
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