A documentary that explores Taino history, culture and the contemporary Indigenous Caribbean Identity. | dG1fRDhzbW9pY2I3aWc
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00:00Taino Genocide Day. The day when Christopher Columbus began to wipe out an entire indigenous population in a way that would even make Pol Pot flush.
00:12Christopher Columbus was this wonderful man who came over here and saved us, and oh my goodness, he was a dog, he was a crook, he was a rapist, he was a thief. So were his men.
00:26Pure-blooded Tainos, no such thing. They're extinct.
00:33Why do people have a problem with me saying Taino Daka or Daka Taino? Well, because there's implications to that.
00:43It's hard to be us. I learned it the hard way from our own people. And it would be nice that our own people, when they see that we have the strength to come out and to let everybody know, listen, we're still here.
00:59You know, we can get together. There's this brotherhood that we can start this nation all over again.
01:05You have people saying that we don't exist.