Tainos & PowWows

On August 3 and 4th, 2010 the Redhawk Native American Arts Council hosted its 14th Annual Bear Mountain Native American Festival Contest Pow wow.

Nearly 5,000 visitors visited daily for this weekend-long event.
The Tainos were also present participating in the pow wow, as vendors and showing their support for all indigenous folks. Native groups from around the world will be represented. A Polynesian dance troupe will convey the culture of the islands of Hawaii, Tahiti, Samoa, and New Zealand. There will also be an Aztec group from Mexico City and Inca groups from Peru and Ecuador. Adults and children who are captivated by Native American history and culture can enjoy food, crafts, and entertainment as well as interact with members of the Sioux, Navajo, Winnebago, Cherokee, and Mohawk tribes. Adventurous eaters can try buffalo burgers, venison stew, corn soup, and fry bread. Less adventurous souls can browse a marketplace where artists from across the country showcase and sell paintings, carvings, pottery, beadwork, jewelry, and leatherwork. The family-friendly event also features a live birds of prey exhibit, pony rides, and a tipi-raising. All that said, the highlight of each year's event is surely the music and dancing - which is literally and figuratively at the center of the festival. In contest powwows, dance groups representing various indigenous communities and ranging in age from tots to adults compete in categories including Men's Fancy War, Women's Fancy Shawl, Men's Northern Traditional, Women's Jingle Dress, and Hoop Dancers. Dancers are judged on their outfits, dancing ability, and how well they tell a story with their performance. The Redhawk Native American Art Council is based in Brooklyn (surprisingly enough) and aims "to educate the general public about Native American traditions and cultures and to help break stereotypes about who Native Americans are today." This is done, among other ways, through an annual multi-festival series. The first of this year's events was held last month in New Jersey. The series continues next month at FDR State Park in Yorktown Heights, in Westchester County.

Vaya al sitio web The Lost taino Tribe para ver el último vídeo (www.LostTainoTribe.com).

En los días 7 y 8 de agosto de 2010 el consejo de los artes del nativo americano de Redhawk tuvieron su 14to Powwow festival. Los Tainos tambien estaban presente participando en las danzas, como vendedores y apoyonda toda la gente indígena. Entrevistas con algunos Tainos cuentan de sus historias y preocupaciones.

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[Dudeluv27]

@MUSiCNME1989 The fact that the matter is that you're mixed, you can't just praise one race/ancestry over the others. thats the truth, and the truth shall set you free!

[bajanboy883]

Dominicana para la vida!!!

[PassionsEpisodes777]

@josias619 Dictionary defines Taino as such: A member of an American Indian people of the greater Antilles and Bahamas. The language of this people belonging to the Arawken family! So josiah619 instead of hating Boricua's celebrate our ancestry, don't deny us our blood!

[MrStyleskillz1]

the canary islands is by africa not spain and the light skinned indians there called guanche berbers with north and west african culture dum ass jacarandas82 the spaniards discovered the 7 islands and started killing them do your research correctly dumb ass of a.......

[IslenoGutierrez]

@jacarandas82 Yeah, I know that Native Americans are rare in P.R.. Most people that have Native American ancestry in P.R. usually have European and/or Black. Tell me, what makes you think the type of Spaniard blood you have is Basque? I am of full Spaniard heritage, but not Basque. My heritage is Canarian of Canary Islands, Spain. I want to get a DNA test soon. I had a White American friend that got it done, and he was 86% European, 11% Native American and 3% Black African. He looks fully White.

[Dudeluv27]

@jacarandas82 What ethnicity are you? what are your 23 and me results? it is rare for a rican to have alot of native american ancestry, they usually tipically score around 10-15% native american in autosomal tests

[IslenoGutierrez]

@jacarandas82 You can't be just Taino, they don't even show up as 1% in the Puerto Rican Census. You gotta be mixed race. But I do know that almost all Puerto Ricans have some percentage of European ancestry, whether fully, predominantly, partially or minimal. I know that Native American DNA is also widespread and subject to the same. As far as a culture, yes, cultures die out. Btw, what was the percentages of your DNA test and which company did you go with?

[IslenoGutierrez]

@jacarandas82 I have to disagree, just because a culture can become extinct, the people would not genetically. Native Americans can loose all of their culture, but if they still exist genetically as a distinct people, they would not be extinct.

[IslenoGutierrez]

@princexico So are you full blooded 100% Aztec? Aztecs use the name Mexica, not Aztec. I think you are a Mestizo, which would make you part European, part Amerindian.