UCTP Taino News - Members of Kasibahagua share a song during the
UN International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples held at the United
Nations on August 8th, 2014.
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The KASIBAHAGUA TAINO CULTURAL SOCIETY is dedicated to the promotion of the music, song, dance, stories and art of the Indigenous Taino People of the Caribbean. The Society’s name, KASIBAHAGUA, derives from part of an ancient Taino creation story. In the language of the Taino, kasibahagua means, "The black-holed stone" and it represents the womb of ATABEIRA - the Earth Mother.
Members of the Kasibahagua Cultural Society after a successful performance at the American Museum of Natural History, August 2008 (Photo: Ananda Apfelbaum)
Kasibahagua Founder, Roberto Borrero presenting Taino dance at the American Museum of Natural History in 1993
Ausobonex and Kuyayaaku (Photo: Ananda Apfelbaum)
Members of Kasibahagua 2009
PABLO HAGUEY ROSARIO, one of Kasibahagua’s elder representatives and advisors in Boriken (Puerto Rico), demonstrates the GUAHEY (Guiro) at a presentation at the American Museum of Natural History in October 2000. Photo: R. Mickens – Courtesy of AMNH
A founding member of Kasibahagua, Lizzy Sarobey (right) now directs her own troupe Wakia Arawaka Taina in Puerto Rico
Established in 1993, the Kasibahagua Taino Cultural Society is an inter-Tribal, inter-generational, community-based organization of indigenous Caribbean singers, musicians, speakers, and artists dedicated to transmitting their ancestral heritage to their present and future generations with dignity and honor.
KASIBAHAGUA TAINO CULTURAL SOCIETY
The KASIBAHAGUA TAINO CULTURAL SOCIETY is dedicated to the promotion of the music, song, dance, stories and art of the Indigenous Taino People of the Caribbean. The Society’s name, KASIBAHAGUA, derives from part of an ancient Taino creation story. In the language of the Taino, kasibahagua means, "The black-holed stone" and it represents the womb of ATABEIRA - the Earth Mother.
Members of the Kasibahagua Cultural Society after a successful performance at the American Museum of Natural History, August 2008 (Photo: Ananda Apfelbaum)
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Indigenous Peoples Day, Randall's Island, October 11-12, 2020
Jamaica Center for Arts and Culture, Jamaica, Queens, June 27
Bear Mountain Pow Wow, August 1-2, 2020
Indigenous Peoples Day, Randall's Island, October 11-12, 2020
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Kasibahagua Founder, Roberto Borrero presenting Taino dance at the American Museum of Natural History in 1993
CONTACT KASIBAHAGUA
Kasibahagua Taino Cultural Society
℅ UCTP PO Box 4518, NY, NY 10163
Via email: oirrc@uctp.org
Ausobonex and Kuyayaaku (Photo: Ananda Apfelbaum)
Past Performances:
Kasibahagua has performed at such notable institutions as the United Nations, American Museum of Natural History, the Institute for American Indian Studies, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian Heye Center, NY Botanical Gardens, NY Open Center, and the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, as well as many festivals and Native American Pow Wows, schools, and universities.
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For information contact mukaro.agueibana@uctp.org
Members of Kasibahagua 2009
Kasibahagua is Oral Tradition
According to Taino oral tradition, Kasibahagua is one of two caves located in a sacred mountain of Cauta, and was the original place of emergence of the Taino People after a great flood that covered the whole earth had subsided. It is from this cave that the Taino went from living in darkness to living in the light. The other cave, called Amaiauna, represents the “place of the others”. It is from this cave that Taino people respectfully acknowledged all the other peoples who share their world.
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- Indigenous People Caucus of the Greater Caribbean
- Guainía Taíno Tribe
PABLO HAGUEY ROSARIO, one of Kasibahagua’s elder representatives and advisors in Boriken (Puerto Rico), demonstrates the GUAHEY (Guiro) at a presentation at the American Museum of Natural History in October 2000. Photo: R. Mickens – Courtesy of AMNH
Kasibahagua Thanks Elba Anaca Lugo
The Kasibahagua Taino Cultural Society would like to take this opportunity to say hahom (thank you) to Elba Anaca Lugo and the members of Paseo Taino/Travesia Taina for all their inspiration over the years. Paseo Taino/Travesia Taina performed contemporary Puerto Rican Folk Music and Taino music and dance throughout Boriken, the Caribbean, and the U.S. In the late 1980’s Elba Anaca Lugo urged a small number of Taino residing in the New York area to formally establish Taino cultural/socio/political organizations in the United States. As a result of this inspiration, Roberto Múkaro Borrero founded, along with some former members of Travesia Taina, the Kasibahagua (Cacibajagua) Taino Cultural Society in 1993.
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A founding member of Kasibahagua, Lizzy Sarobey (right) now directs her own troupe Wakia Arawaka Taina in Puerto Rico
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1 comment:
Why does Puerto Rico have a higher voter turnout than USA?
Puerto Ricans have a voter turnout of about 80%. The United States (US) citizens have a voter turnout of about 50%. What accounts for this 30 % disparity? Could it be that Puerto Rican believe in democracy more than US mainland citizens?
Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States since 1898. Since that time, Puerto Ricans who have wanted to decolonize their country have been either assassinated or imprisoned. Many Puerto Ricans are terrified of independence for Puerto Rico as a result of 116 years of repression.
Since colonialism is always for exploitation, there are no opportunities in Puerto Rico for Puerto Ricans. That is why there are now more Puerto Ricans out, than in Puerto Rico. Therefore, Puerto Ricans are desperate to find a political solution to our eternal colonialism!
Most Puerto Ricans believe that decolonization can be achieved through the electoral process. But the electoral process is ultimately under the control of the government of the United States. Since the US government has ignored 33 United Nations resolutions asking it to immediately decolonize Puerto Rico, and it has maintained incarcerated Puerto Rico political prisoner Oscar López Rivera for 33 years despite worldwide support to free him, there should be no doubt that the US government will never allow decolonization via the electoral process. If it were possible to do it that way, we would not have it!
The better way to decolonize is for that 80% of the Puerto Rico voter turnout to instead protest in the streets to demand our inalienable right to self-determination and independence, and insist that the UN do the decolonization in conformity to international law. After all, colonialism is within the jurisdiction of international law and never under national law. That is why it is a crime against humanity to have a colony under international law, but not so under US law.
José M López Sierra
www.TodosUnidosDescolonizarPR.blogspot.com
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