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Video Title:
Taíno Symposium – Session 3 – Panelist Introductions
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The National Museum of the American Indian and the Smithsonian Latino Center presented Taíno: A Symposium in Conversation with the Movement on September 8, 2018 to celebrate the exhibition Taíno: Native Heritage and Identity in the Caribbean. Experts representing Indigenous studies, genetic science, anthropology, linguistics, and other academic disciplines examined exhibition themes in dialogue with Taíno/Indigenous Caribbean community leaders and cultural workers. This session, titled Looking Forward: A Shared Vision for the Taíno Movement, is a conversation with established and emerging women leaders from the Taíno/Indigenous Caribbean movement. This segment features introductions from session panelists Tai Pelli (United Confederation of Taíno Peoples), Marilyn Balana’ni Díaz (Guatu Ma-cu A Borikén), and educator, author, and performer Peggy Robles-Alvarado. Marilyn Balana’ni DÍAZ is an acknowledged abuela (elder) of the Concilio Taíno Guatu-Ma-cu a Borikén and a proud mother and grandmother. Born in New York City to Puerto Rican parents, she grew up in New York and Puerto Rico, where she is currently based. Díaz was raised, in part, by her great-grandmother, Doña Reyes Sánchez Correa, a healer from the town of Río Grande, Puerto Rico. Díaz studied natural sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Carolina. She joined the community of Concilio Taíno Guatu-Ma-cu a Borikén in 2009 and was named a community grandmother in 2012 and bohicia (spiritual healer) in 2016. Tai PELLI is a liaison officer of the United Confederation of Taíno People (UCTP) and a co-founder of the Caribbean Amerindian Development Organization (CADO). She is an environmental, treaty, and Indigenous rights advocate at international, national, and local levels. She is also a member of the board of directors of the International Indian Treaty Council, an organization that represents Indigenous peoples from North, Central, and South America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific, and the first Indigenous organization to receive general consultative status from the United Nations Economic and Social Council. She is a writer, speaker, and researcher who promotes the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples globally and who has been outspoken about environmental violence and its health impacts in the Caribbean, particularly in Borikén/Puerto Rico. Peggy Guatuki ROBLES-ALVARADO is a New York City-born Dominican/Puerto Rican tenured educator with graduate degrees in elementary and bilingual education and an MFA in Performance and Performance Studies from Pratt Institute. She is an award-winning educator, author, performer, and producer; her publications include Conversations With My Skin and Homage to the Warrior Women. Named one of the 25 Most Influential Women of the Bronx in 2016, her writing has been featured in NACLA, Manteca! An Anthology of Afro-Latin@ Poets, and by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, the Bronx Memoir Project, and Latina Voices. She’s been featured on HBO Habla Women, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Poets & Writers, and the BADD!ASS Women Festival. She produced The Abuela Stories Project; Mujeres, The Magic, The Movement and The Muse; and directed the poetic play Live Big Girl. As a former teen mother, an initiated priestess in the Lukumi and Palo spiritual systems, and a proud grandmother, Robles-Alvarado uses her rhythmic energy to celebrate womanhood and honor cultural rituals. This symposium was webcast and recorded live in at the National Museum of the American Indian New York, George Gustav Heye Center on September 8, 2018.
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10 min 18 sec
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