Thursday, December 14, 2006
The 37th Annual Jayuya Indigenous Festival was held last month in the mountain town of Jayuya, an active center of Taino culture in Puerto Rico. The young Taina in the picture was crowned this year's Festival Queen.
By the way, it was in Jayuya in 1950 that Puerto Rican nationalists staged a revolt which has come to be known as EL Grito de Jayuya.
The Town of Jayuya is just a short distance from Utuado, another center of Taino culture and history. It is there where you'll find the fabulous Centro Ceremonial Indígena de Caguana.
To walk the grounds of this Taino spiritual center is to be transported to the world of our not too distant ancestors.
Sitting in the circle, I felt a reassurance that I was among my people.
Another superb Taino cultural and ceremonial center is the The Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center near Ponce. The grounds there also gave me a powerful sense of being home.
Posted by USTaino at 10:59 AM
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