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Taino - by Jose Barreiro (Paperback)

Taino - by  Jose Barreiro (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A novel of Columbus s discovery, as told by the Native peoples who were present. <P><BR>"<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>"Written" by Guaikán, the elderly Taino man who, in his youth, was adopted by Christopher Columbus and saw history unfold, <i>Taino</i> is the Indian chronicle of the American encounter, the Native view on Columbus and what happened in the Caribbean. This novel, based on a true story, penetrates the historical veil that still enshrines the "discovery."<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Presently a senior fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, <b>Jose Barreiro</b> is a novelist, essayist, and an activist of nearly four decades on American indigenous hemispheric themes. In 1974 Barreiro was enlisted by John Mohawk to help produce the national <i>Native Newspaper Akwesasne Notes</i>, published by the traditional Mohawk Nation. For ten years, they served as joint coordinators on numerous indigenous human rights and community building campaigns. Barreiro was editor of Cornell University's Akwe: kon Press from 1984 to 2002, and later was senior editor of <i>Indian Country Today</i>. Barriero is a member of the Taino Nation of the Antilles.

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