#tainotok

[tainolearner]

an important distinction to recognize is that canary islands are the oldest colonial territory in the world today. and not all taino spoke classic taino, some taino ancestors did speak ciboney taino!🤙🏼

[tainolearner]

if you find a self proclaimed "taino gatekeeper" seeming to belittle and condescend, believe what you're seeing.

Be mindful of lateral violence and erasure of lived indigenous reality at the expense of indigenous minorities who've experienced the most devastating effects of ethnogenocide, forced assimilation, and white supremacist indoctrination.

Be mindful of how this rhetoric is dangerous in how it conflates authentic indigeneity, which includes indigenous reconnection, and dishonestly conflates that with pretendians. like its just so dishonest. in fact, most taino are not pretending to be "indian", most of us especially in diaspora are reconnecting with our ethnogenocided heritages. But the way este tipo never quit with the dishonesty and the selective reframing. can't stand it