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Children’s Festival of Taíno culture

The 21st Annual Children’s Festival at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Manhattan’s Financial District focuses on Taíno culture of the Caribbean, Saturday-Sunday, May 18-19, 2019 from 11am – 5pm. FREE

The family festival is inspired by the current exhibition “Taíno: herencia e identidad indígena en el Caribe.”

There are hands-on activities like making a hammock from natural fibers and crafting with designs inspired by petroglyphs. There is interactive dancing with Irka Mateo, and storytelling by Bobby Gonzalez.

An exhibit explains how the Bodega corner stores that dot New York City function in many ways like the traditional community gardens or “conucos” of the Caribbean.

For more information, visit www.si.edu


Reclaiming our Taíno Heritage

Taíno are Indigenous peoples of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and eastern Cuba. We are originally from Venezuela’s Orinoco River basin.

The basis for the current resurgence of interest in Taíno heritage is a 2000 National Science Foundation study of Puerto Rican genetics which found that a majority of Puerto Ricans, 61%, carry Indigenous genes.

The dominant narrative about Indigenous Americans has been that “they” were wiped out, yet “we” are still here. We’ve always been here. We were just told that we didn’t exist.

Now that we know, it’s fun to recover our traditional heritage. Taíno ways were crafted over ages so there is natural wisdom built into them. We may need some of those smarts to adapt to the future.


La cultura Taína será el tema principal del 21º Festival Anual para Niños en el Museo Nacional del Indígena Americano

La cultura Taína será el tema principal del 21º Festival Anual para Niños en el Museo Nacional del Indígena Americano George Gustav Heye Center en Nueva York, el sábado y el domingo, 18 y 19 de mayo, de 11 a.m. a 5 p.m. Inspirado en la exposición “Taíno: herencia e identidad indígena en el Caribe”, la programación del festival incluirá actividades de manualidades, juegos y presentaciones de artistas Taínos.

 Durante el festival, los visitantes aprenderán cómo se representa y se vive la cultura Taína en la actualidad. Las actividades prácticas incluyen elaboración de maracas, tejer una hamaca y decorar botones y ollas de terracota con diseños inspirados en los petroglifos. Una estación interactiva elaborada en base a una bodega muestra cómo las tiendas de la esquina que se encuentran en toda la ciudad de Nueva York funcionan muy similar a los conucos, o jardines comunitarios tradicionales, en las comunidades Taínas del Caribe. Un educador del museo estará disponible para conversar con los visitantes sobre las comidas autóctonas del Caribe que se encuentran regularmente en las tiendas de los vecindarios de Nueva York.

Además de las actividades prácticas, los visitantes pueden participar en la danza interactiva con Irka Mateo o escuchar historias tradicionales contadas por Bobby González. Mateo pasó 10 años en una iniciativa apoyada por la Fundación Grammy, investigando y documentando más de 13 géneros de tradiciones musicales en las zonas rurales de la República Dominicana. González, un reconocido narrador y poeta, se ha presentado en el Carnegie Hall, el Nuyorican Poets Café y el Brooklyn Museum of Art.


National Museum of the American Indian

1 Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004
(in the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House at the end of Broadway)
Financial District, Manhattan


Published May 18, 2019 ~ Updated January 11, 2020.

Filed Under: Cuban, Dominican, Indigenous, National Museum of the American Indian New York, Puerto Rican, Taíno

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