Abstract
This chapter examines Indigenous Taino ways of life, identity, and experiences. It privileges the voices of five Yamaye (Jamaica) community members who share stories about historical and contemporary Taino life as they work to dismantle the stories of nonexistence. It demonstrates ways in which some Taino people in Yamaye, through “talking their talk” and telling stories that have been passed down for generations, are redefining what it means to be Taino as they map their own identity and assert themselves as self-determined peoples. Three central themes—Taino knowledge systems, Taino technology, and Taino activism —are used to demonstrate how Indigenous Taino peoples focus on their ways of knowing, countering structural violence.
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Neeganagwedgin, E. (2022). “This is Taino Land and Taino Knowledge”: Disrupting Dominant Construction of Caribbean Indigenous Peoples. In: Tate, S.A., Gutiérrez Rodríguez, E. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Race and Gender. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83947-5_19
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