this-is-not-taino:

indigenous-caribbean:

THE OFFICIAL SITE OF THE TAINO NATION

This Day of Genocide, or Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we invite you to remember why this day is remembered in history. We invite you to learn why this day is chronicled in history, not only why its celebration is contested by Indigenous peoples today. Learn not only the consequences and repercussion of Columbus’ landing, but why we refuse to let stand the assumption Columbus and his ilk won.

Remembering is a radical act; it is an act of resistance. Our survivance, our cultural continuity that has gone uninterrupted since Spain’s opportune and fraudulent call of a death knell, makes our nation proud. We have not faded into the annals of time. We refuse to simply die.

From the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ in Standing Rock to Matsés resistance in Sierra del Divisor, we are active presences denying forced and coerced absence, erasure, and genocide. We are here to situate and deliberately reconnect memory to names, geographies, and communities; to rectify historical and epistemological erasure.

We want to be unmistakable.

We invite you to learn with us.