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1 LA VOZ DEL PUEBLO TAINO
(THE VOICE OF THE TAINO PEOPLE) VOLUME
4, ISSUSE 1 ¨ JANUARY - MARCH 2001
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Highlights
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Dominican Kallinago - Carib Delegation visits NYC
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Taino Delegates go to the Vatican
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Regional Report from Boriken (Puerto Rico)
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Cave Systems in Boriken ; Special Photo Gallery ;
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Tattoos and Tainos ; Editorial – Taino in the NYDOC
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Community Bulletin Board ; Taino Language
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Voice of the People ; CALENDER of EVENTS
La
Voz del
Pueblo Taino
La Voz del Pueblo Tainoâ (The Voice of the Taino People) is the Official Newsletter of the
United Confederation of Taino People - United States Regional Chapter
Volume 4, Issue 1, January – March 2001 ã All Rights Reserved
Carib Delegation Visits the Big Apple!
Dominican Carib Representatives Premier New Film and Take Part in Cultural Exchange
NEW YORK, NY, –
In November
the Smithsonian’s National Museum of
the American Indian (NMAI) hosted a
delegation of Kalinago (Carib) Indians
from the Caribbean island of
Dominica. The Carib are the subject of
the BBC film “Quest of the Carib
Canoe”, portraying an epic thousand-
mile sea voyage they undertook in an
open canoe to find their ancestral
relations in South America.
Centuries before Columbus came to
the islands of the Caribbean, ancestors
of the Caribs had come as settlers
themselves, setting off from the
Orinoco Delta and traveling north in
great ocean-going canoes. For Jacob
Frederick, (a Carib artist and activist),
returning to South America fulfilled a
lifelong dream to rebuild ancient
alliances fragmented by time.
The film premiered August 21,
2000 on BBC Television to a prime-
time audience of 2.1 million viewers. It
received accolades in the London
Press, including selection as Pick of the
Week by the Sunday Times and the
Daily Telegraph, among others.
National Geographic also purchased
the film for international broadcast
through Jane Balflour Films.
Executive Director of the Tribal Link
Foundation, Pamela Kraft with Carib
Elder and master Canoe Builder
“Chalo”.
Prior to the Carib’s visit to New
York, the film was shown at the
American Museum of Natural History
in October. During their November
visit, the Carib delegation appeared
together with filmmaker Eugene
Jarecki at the National Museum of
the American Indian, the Bruce
Museum, and the Pequot Museum.
Jacob Frederick (left) meets with
Taino representatives in NYC. In photo
from left to right are J. Fredrick, R.
Hernandez, D. Campos, and J.
Echevarria. Photo: UCTP
In collaboration with the Tribal
Link Foundation and the United
Confederation of Taino People, the
delegation also held a special advanced
screening for UN Agency and NGO
representatives.
The film’s inclusion in the 2000
Native American Film and Video
Festival marked the first time Carib
people from Dominica have been
included in a gathering of Native
American Peoples in the United States.
The reception was overwhelming.
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