#Jayuya Puerto Rico

[elijones94]

🇵🇷 Earlier today was a day of exploring the mountains to check of a small museum about the history of the Taíno, natives of Puerto Rico. ⛰️🌴

#Museo El Cemi #Jayuya Puerto Rico #museum #sightseeing #exploring #historical artifacts #Puerto Rican history #Taíno #ancient history #mountains #mountain roads #Thursday morning

[papas-majadas]

Growing up back in Jayuya, PR — I had a pet Goose named Güi Güi and a dog named Bobee. The duck had one eye and the dog lost both.

I was cursed.

#a.r.lopez #chicago #art #polaroid #pets #duck #dog #puerto rico #jayuya puerto rico

[corrupcionenpr]

LUMA de mal a peor, igual que el inepto de Fortaleza.

#puerto rico #corrupción #Pa Fuera LUMA #Pa Fuera PIERLUISI y LUMA #Luma energy #fueraluma #LUMA Energy Puerto Rico #Partido Nuevo Progresista #Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia #politicos corruptos #Politicos de Mierda #Corrupt Politicians #dirty politics #Esto es Puerto Rico #despierta boricua #despierta puerto rico #Puerto Ricans #puertorico #jayuya puerto rico

[need-coffeee]

#jayuya #puerto rico #nature

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Por Berta Joubert-Ceci

Si bien es más conocido fuera de Puerto Rico el Grito de Lares del 1868, la importancia del Levantamiento de Jayuya, es que fue el primer alzamiento armado en contra del invasor yanqui.

Los actos de conmemoración este año fueron muy especiales, porque se daban en un contexto mundial muy doloroso. El genocidio por Israel y Estados Unidos del pueblo palestino. Y para nosotros y nosotras en Puerto Rico, la lucha palestina siempre ha sido una lucha hermana. Ambos somos colonia y a nuestros pueblos se les ha querido desplazar de nuestras tierras, en Puerto Rico con un carácter menos cruento, pero con el mismo fin de adueñarse de nuestra patria. 

#jayuya #palestina #solidaridad #palestina libre #puerto rico libre #colonialismo

[islanderworldpr]

Trip to Jayuya

#jayuya #puerto rico #hacienda san pedro #hacienda tres picachos #cafe

[iatmospheric]

#valley #mountains #mountain range #countryside #indie #nature #sunset #road trip #soft colors #lights #town #road #dusk #dark #alternative #clouds #jayuya #puerto rico

[twinklinqs]

my boyfriend’s grandmother’s house <3

(jayuya, puerto rico)

#reblog #aesthetic #be kind #nature #cottagecore #jayuya #puerto rico #warm #soft #house

[alexmcphotography]

Jayuya

#jayuya #puerto rico #photography

[noconcepts]

In between the lines

#omnipotent #non duality #Jayuya #Puerto Rico #soundcloud

[sepai73]

#puerto rico #tres picachos #jayuya #bandera #flores

[elijones94]

⛰️ Through twists and turns on mountain roads, my mom and I discovered Taíno petroglyphs carved in a boulder and a waterfall along the side of a road. ⛰️🌴

#Jayuya Puerto Rico #waterfall #mountain roads #mountains #sightseeing #Thursday afternoon #driving through the mountains #nature #God’s creation #the beauty of God’s creation

[havatabanca]

#blanca canales #puerto rico #puerto rican nationalists #jayuya #uprising #rebellion #resistance #puerto rican resistance #caribbean unrest #colonialism #imperialism

[flore-the-poet]

Never Forget Palestine

I know that this is a long, serious, and sudden post to make after a couple of months of null activity. I normally keep my explicit convictions out of social media circles, but the emotions that the ongoing genocide in occupied Palestine has brewed within me is something that I can't keep to myself any longer. As a person who lives in the world's oldest colony, I feel the urgency to express my unshakable and absolute support for the Palestinian people under occupation and their wider diaspora.

As a Puerto Rican, I can somewhat understand the violence that colonialism wreaks upon native peoples. I know what economic violence looks like. I know first hand the pain and dread that displacement brings, the sacrifices that the diaspora undertakes every day, and I've witnessed gentrification efforts in Puerto Rico accelerate astronomically. I know how colonialism erases cultures and warps senses of identity; Americanization and globalization have my culture on a chokehold and I often find myself asking who am I, for I have my own flag, but by law I am a US citizen. And although I was born in the new millennium, my grandparents and parents knew what political and military violence is and have done their due diligence in making me remember the ostracized, the murdered, and disappeared.

As a Puerto Rican, I feel an unshakable sense of gross complicity in the ongoing genocide. I feel this way because our leaders in San Juan and in Washington DC actively support and fund the IDF's genocidal war machine. I feel this way because many of the weapons and munitions that currently maim, kill, and destroy the very livelihood of the Palestinian people were developed and tested in the shores of the municipal island of Vieques, which is located some twenty-odd kilometers from our eastern coast. I feel this way because I read repost after repost of shellshocked Palestinians desperately calling for aid, humanization, and solidarity by showcasing the bodies of their murdered to the world from the comfort of a standing home and relative access to basic resources, and overall experiencing a normal way of life. I feel this way, because the active targeting of journalists and activists, community leaders, and scholars by IDF troops echo the arrests, unfair trails, imprisonment, torture, murder, and disappearance of our leaders orchestrated by evil men like Blanton Winship and Edgar Hoover. To whoever reads this, please do not forget Palestine. When Puerto Rican Revolutionaries revolted against US colonial rule in 1950, the UN ignored our struggle for independence and looked the other way as US Navy planes bombed the Jayuya to ruins and National Guardsmen arrested and murdered armed revolutionaries and civilians alike all around Puerto Rico. The Gaza Genocide is beyond everything my fellow countrymen have ever faced. Please, for your humanity, do not turn your backs on Palestine just as the world did to us.

#writeblr #spilled ink #puerto rico #palestine #i stand with palestine

[manicato]

Daka Taíno y estoy aquí.

I was the blogger Triguenaista/Inaruri who was stalked and harrassed for 10+ years, while homeless, by Keyla Rivera and her anti-indigenous group “This-is-not-taino". Keyla Rivera, of Florida and Orocovis, PR, a white Puerto Rican, was mostly responsible for this racist behavior.

Since in the last ten years, I have CONTINUED to see my name thrown around as a "validated pretendian/fraud" because of the now-exposed Keyla's behavior- We're just going to need to address it. And since I was doxxed by them, and my full name has been shared with you all, I'm going to go ahead and show you some documents that that hate-group wasn't willing to show.

Let's start with a family tree- ya?

Avelino, was born into slavery in Puerto Rico, approximately 1865, in Arecibo Puerto Rico. To the best of my knowledge (and factoring in the DNA test), he was Afro-Taíno, with strong Nigerian/Western Bantu roots. As noted on the last published Registro Central de Esclavos of 1872 (page 3, 9th person recorded), he was a natural-born Puerto Rican (Natural de Oto Rico).

 After abolition in 1873, like many others, Avelino was forced to continue working for 3 to 5 more years. Do Barbara Balseiro (the indicated slave owner) had a working relationship with Felix Marengo y Poggi, and was known to send slaves to work at his plantations.

Through research (1910 census), I found that Maria Baerga y Rivera De Quiñones was a "Mulatto" housekeeper for the Felix Marengo y Poggi in the 1910’s. It is likely that this is where Avelino met her daughter Maria Quiñones Baerga and developed a relationship.

They had son Felix (recorded as negro on census documents, until adulthood/WW2, where he is then recorded as blanco/brown toned (on his Draft card), who married Carmen Martinez.

This is Carmen’s Acta de Nacimiento which indicates race as “Mestiza”, clearly indicating not only direct Taíno heritage/ancestry, but a connection to an existing community as that was the only circumstance in which this term was legally used in PR when they started to write Taínos out of the country. It was and is currently illegal to list someone's race/ethnicity in PR as indigenous. Mestiza and Trigeño is the ONLY exceptions for those with concrete connections.

A Close-up:

On the naciemnto form above her mother is cited as “Vincenta/Vincenda”, from/born in Jayuya. There is a note about her grandparents in part 3. “Ambos de raza mestiza”, Ajiubro Martinez and Juana Martinez from Morovis.

According to family oral history, Carmen Martinez came from a community/family that took care of the Caguana Indigenous Ceremonial site of Utuado before the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña took over with formal protections in 1955.

There may be a relationship between her and one of the 60 Puerto Rican indigenous children taken to the Carlisle Indian School in 1901. Three Martinez children were enrolled there, Provindentia, Levia, and Miguel. My best-informed guess is Provindentia Martinez may be my 2nd great-grandmother as “Vincenta” could be a derivative of the name. If it was Provendentia, she would have been the right age to have a child, settling down in PR after traveling to NY for a few years after her time at the Carlisle School, as recorded in their records. Until better clarification can be obtained, this is just speculation.

Carmen would make and maintain small bohio-like structures in the backyard of the family Utuado home (many were destroyed after Hurricane George, and the rest after Hurricane Maria), to house Semisakis and Opias.

My grandfather, Luis Alfonso Quiñones Sr. was extremely proud and vocal of our rich Taíno heritage and culture. He made sure that we knew our roots and how precious our indigenous ancestry is, and taught us all he could remember.

In terms of direct lineage, my direct Taíno lineage can be traced from my 2nd great-grandfather Avelino, my great-grandmother Carmen Martinez (whom I had the honor of knowing and having a relationship with as a child living in Puerto Rico), and my own grandfather Luis Alfonso Quiñones Sr (who I grew up with).

If "cultural connection"/"growing up in a continuously connected family" was your issue with my indigenous status- clearly I did and have the documentation to show my family's continuous connection.

If it's blood quantum/documented indigenous status- I'm between 3/8th and 7/16th according to my DNA. With the documents I have here, if Tainos were a federally recognized tribe in the US, by the BIA standards, I'd be eligible for enrollment.

And this is all without discussing how history and the laws affect lineage recording or the "Whitening of PR". My family's oral history should have been believed to start with, but now the documentation can be found online. You have your "proof" on the two points yall bring up the most.

So you see why the younger me couldn't figure out why everyone just believed the lies being told? How even now that this hate group was exposed, I don't get why I am the scapegoat for people trying to make a point. Like, I wasn't and am not an educator, nor was I trying to make money in any way (and I was homeless- I needed money and yet DID NOT ASK). I was literally just existing on this hell site and became a target. But yall handed over your cash really quick to this hate group, validated them, and were so shocked when they ended up being frauds and provided yall with NOTHING.

You all believed a white puertorrican that BIPOC's could not be trusted to be indigenous (look at the list, it is EXCLUSIVELY Black and Brown peoples and anyone who stood up for them. It wasn't a "frauds list" until after we all left the platform. That was added AFTERWARDS. And yes, some of us are STILL friends because we were here for the community, not cash or fame). You continue to keep that belief every time you defend it. In the end, ya'll are just being racist and need to stop hurting an already small af community.

Taínos exists. We are here. We are NOT recognized by the US gov't yet. To imply our self-determination takes away from indigenous people is to fundamentally not understand what it is to be indigenous. And, it implies you see the indigenous status as money and not actually living people with complex needs and issues.

I'm glad the rest of the internet has unlearned what this group put into the world about Taínos, but now I'mma need yall on here to minimally stop throwing my name around. Stop it. I am exactly who I have been telling you all I am, whether you accept that or not is NOT my problem. I have the documentation, which is more than can be said about anyone yall have believed in the past.

At least I know who my people are, grew up knowing, and can live happily knowing there are people who disagree in our community because we aren't a monolithic group. Yall just need to treat us as humans.

For those reading for the history of it all- I'm glad to help. If you're trying to figure out your family's documentation- I got great info on how to find the information and who to contact. If you're looking for cultural resources- tainolibrary is LITERALLY the best source and it's free (Note: I have no affiliation with them. I genuinely believe they are a healthy and safe resource for those seeking reconnection/validation).

For those realizing they fucked up in believing my stalker- I accept my apologies in cash.

#inaruri #triguenaista #taino #tainos #caribbean indigenous #tumblr hate groups #this-is-not-taino #Since my name keeps coming up Im going to HAVE to serve some truths #the poll spoke and I posted #Taino ancestry #Indigenous recognition #indigenous #I am so sorry to have gone off like this but I have HAD it #puerto rico history #caribe indigena

[islanderworldpr]

#jayuya #puerto rico