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Video Title:
Taíno Symposium – Session 1 – Elba Anaca Lugo
Description:
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 Back: Contextualizing the Taíno Movement is a conversation among veteran Taíno organizers and community leaders. This segment features Elba Anaca Lugo of the community group Consejo General de Taínos Borincanos. Elba Anaca LUGO is a groundbreaking leader and organizer of the Taíno movement in Puerto Rico. Born in Utuado, and raised mostly on the island, Lugo first founded the music and cultural legacies group Paseo Taíno in 1978 before leading the community group Consejo General de Taínos Borincanos (founded in 1979). This nonprofit organization was created to promote, preserve, rescue, and defend Puerto Rico’s Indigenous heritage for future generations. It gained international attention in 2005 for occupying the Caguana Indigenous Ceremonial Park with a coalition of other Taíno organizations to protest the sacred site’s poor maintenance and demand better access for Native-descent families and groups. 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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13 min 46 sec
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