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Chief Petro Guanikeyu Torres, The historical roots of a Nation

The historical roots of a Nation

By Chief Petro Guanikeyu Torres

The untold story of the first Native American encounter in 1492We begin this discussion of the rights to nationality, of a free Tainoindigenous people of the Caribbean, by returning to October 12, 1492,with the very first landing of the Spanish European invaders upon thenational soil of the Taino nation.The Taino indigenous island people of Guanahani (San Salvador) did notunderstand why these strange, white, Guamikinas ("coveredpeople") were landing on our beautiful sandy beaches. TheSpaniards wanted food and riches (gold). They started to take ourpeople into bondage and rape our women. The first Taino slave in theAmericas was named Guaikan, a native boy of the island of Guanahani,who later became Christobal Colon's (Christopher Columbus) adoptedTaino son, and was later known as Diego Colon.The point is that in 1492 the Taino people were a self-constitutedfree and soverign indigenous Nation within the known Bagua (CaribbeanSea) region. The events that would shape the future of the present dayTaino people would follow a trend that would horrify the world some500 plus years later, the genocide of some three to six million Tainohuman beings. His attempt to wipe us out failed because of theirlustful ways.On Saturday, November 18, 1493, Colon returned again with anotherinvasion force of eighteen armed ships with many greedy gold-seekingSpanish soldiers. In a true showing of Taino nationalism, to thesurprise of the invaders, as Christobal Colon (Columbus) watched, thecrying tearful Taino captive prisoners, whom he had forced to go withhim as native scouts, were joyfully jumping overboard into the Whiteshark infested waters of the Bagua when they saw their belovedhomeland of Boriken.On Sunday November 19th 1493, he officially appropriated the Americasin the name of Spain and its Catholic church. He landed that Sunday inBoriken (Puerto Rico) and had the audacity to rename our Taino-Boricuahomeland with the colonial Catholic name of San Juan Bautista (SaintJohn the Baptist). Later on they would rename our Taino homelandagain, as it known today, Puerto Rico. We Taino Native Americans neverstopped calling it Boricua ("The valiant people of the sacredhouse") or, by it's real name, Boriken ("The Land of thevalient and noble lord").As for the so-called "Taino Extinction" stories told by theEuro-Spanish colonial historians, the Taino people and their Cariberegional nationality has never been extinct. Although the nation wassuppressed in history and decimated by past and present-day whiteSpanish colonists, the Taino nationality has always been waiting torise up again, as it did on the of November 18, 1993, following thelong awaited 500 year old prophecy. Many ask the question, "Howcan a group of people from other Caribbean islands, seeing themselvesas Taino indigenous people, band together and call themselves a"Taino Indigenous Caribbean Nation?"The concept of nation comes from a people with the same commonculture, race and beliefs. If we were to study surviving Taino people,we would find these attributes shared by a highly developedmulti-cultural Taino Indigenous people in all parts of theCaribbean. The rights or freedoms of one's nationality is solely basedon the unified efforts of a people to their determination to governthemselves as a free nation. The Taino people are neither of PuertoRican, Dominican, Jamaican, Cuban nor of a the present Floridiannationality. We are a separate Native American nationality that haisted for centuries among the Caribbean nations subject to Spanish,English and French European domination.

The white supremacy fantasy of 1493

But let us return to December, 1492, on the Island of Quiskeya (SantoDomingo/Haiti) to clear up a false statement that might lead manyhistorians to believe that our Taino ancestral Aracoel (grandfathers)believed that the Spanish invaders where white gods, rather thanmortal men like the Taino. If by chance you have been following thehistoric accounts and can recall that when the Spanish built the firstfort, called, "La Fortin de Natividad" (Fort Nativity), it wasbuilt on the island of Quiskeya by the lost crew of the ill-fatedSanta Maria that ran aground with the help of our wind-spirit Huracan,on a windy day in December 12 1492. Our hospitable indigenous peopletreated the Europeans like kings. But because these Canary Islandcut-throats set upon our gentle people, the Cacique (Chief) known asChief Caonabo, had no choice but to put and end to this tyranny bykilling them for the crimes they had commited against our people. Thisestablished that the Europeans were humans, and knowing that ourpeople are natural bochincheros (Gossipers) the story of thekilling of these clothed so-called immortal white Gods spread likewild fire. In November 19, 1493, on the Taino island homeland ofBoriken (Puerto Rico), the Taino/Boricua nationality also fought topreserve and protect the good heritage of our forefathers from theEuropean criminals.The reason for the attribution of immortality to the Europeans derivesfrom an event in the year 1511 at the Great Battle of the Toa inBoriken. The great Chiefs Urayoan, Guarinex and Orocobix becameangered with a foolish arrogant Spanish hidalgo named Diego Salcedo,who dared to climb upon the backs of our Guazabara (warriors) to cross the Toa River. They ordered himdrowned. To his surprise, our smiling people just dropped his arrogantpompous ass in the river and sat on him holding him down under thewater. This shows that historical lies can be put to rest even 500years later.

The self-determination of indigenous nations

If we should study our Native American brothers within the UnitedStates colonial system, we would surely find that they survive as dothe rising Taino Indigenous nationality of the Caribe. Yet my brothersto the North are nothing but indigenous nations living within a UScolonial nation. Some people ask, Why a Taino Indigenous Nation? Youmust understand that our Indigenous Nation has always been here, asfar back as 3,000 years before Don Christobal Colon (Columbus) and the500 years of the genocide of the 260 million Native Americans wouldcome to pass. Yet Colon and his bloody Toledo sword was nothing but asad Cohoba vision of a small hongo (a mushroom), a futurespermatozoid that was growing on a stump on side of a hill. It wasgrowing, on our sacred Cohobana tree, that it would be struck in thefuture by the power of white lighting. Yet it was known that 500 yearswould come to pass, that in the future our nation would rise again andgrow from the ashes like a great phoenix, the nation of "theRainbow Warriors" of South-East, of a once conquered TainoIndigenous nation. With its sacred symbol, the humble pollinator -the little Colibri Caribbean (Hummingbird) with its wings of manycolors that would pollinate and rejuvenate from one Island to the nextIsland across the great blueish jade Bagua (Caribbean Sea), the Islandwheel of jade as they call Caribbean, down to the northern shores ofthe Taino-Timucua, Taino-Guacara and the Taino-Calusa Tribal landswithin our warm Bimini (Florida) Taino tropical rainforest home.Note: The purpose of this article is not to bash the Europeans, but topoint out some historical facts that have never been told by theNative American victims of the brutal inhumanity committed against thefirst Native Americans. These are our peoples' personal accounts, thestory of the Taino holocaust of the six million tears.About the authorA graduate of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey atLivingston College, with degrees in Anthropology, Puerto RicanStudies, Latin American Studies and Art, Chief Petro Guanikeyu Torresis a highly revered Taino Elder who is believed to be the greatgrandson of the late Taino Chieftain of the district of Jatibonico,known as Orocobix. He has been fighting for the rights of Taino peopleever since he was a boy of fourteen. Chief Torres, the founder of theNew Jersey Taino band of Jatibonuco. He is also the Tribal CouncilChief of the Southern New Jersey Taino Tribe of Jatibonuco (extractedand revised from "La Revista de La Indierra Taina" (The TainoIndian Land Review) newsletter, April, 1996.

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