INSIDE NMAI .......................


TAINOS DISCOVER COLUMBUS


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his season, visitors to the Na- tional Museum of the Ameri- can Indian in New York can learn what really happened to the first peoples who en- countered Columbus in 1492.


Museum workshop coordinator Jorge Estevez (Taino) will explore the history and Indige- nous cultural continuities of the Taino people of the Caribbean in his program, “Tainos En- counter Columbus,” on October 11 at 6 p.m. in the Diker Pavilion. The program is free and open to the public. Estevez, from the Dominican Republic,


says, “I have been researching Taino culture for 30 years now. In the old days it was difficult since there was little work, but today there is a plethora of multi-disciplinary research avail- able. My hope is that people will come away with a better understanding of the true fate of the first Native peoples to have prolonged contact with the Europeans.” The presentation and discussion will


engage visitors through the exploration of material culture and images of original Spanish woodcuts from the period of initial contact. These woodcuts depict Taino people performing various cultural rituals inher- ent to their daily existence. Estevez will then superimpose contemporary images over the woodcuts to show the continued traditions being upheld by modern-day Tainos. — Quinn Bradley (Navajo/Assiniboine)


Jorge Estevez (Taino).


50 AMERICAN INDIAN FALL 2012


PHOTO BY STEPHEN LANG


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