Rosa Vargas-Cronin will join us on Thursday, June 29, at 6:30 PM to share her journey researching her African and Indigenous ancestry. Yearning to acquire accurate information about the Taino indigenous people of the Caribbean and the enslaved Africans shipped to the Americas motivated her six-year investigation.
In Taino People and Art, Rosa will introduce you to her ancestors, the Taino people, and how they continue to honor their culture today. The Taino are the indigenous people of the Caribbean islands and they inhabited what are now Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti (Hispaniola), Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Florida. Once the most numerous indigenous people of the Caribbean; the Taino numbered up to five million in Hispaniola alone at the time of the Spanish colonization in the late 15th century.
In addition to the presentation, attendess will also create a Taino Sun petroglyph, which represents everything from the sun and sky to the Taino cosmology.
If you’d like to attend this program, please register now through our Event Calendar.
Published on June 23, 2023.
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