{"id":93652,"date":"2024-03-27T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=93652"},"modified":"2024-04-01T17:58:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T17:58:45","slug":"stories-as-medicine-jamaican-taino-chief-to-discuss-healing-and-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2024\/03\/stories-as-medicine-jamaican-taino-chief-to-discuss-healing-and-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stories as Medicine,\u2019 Jamaican Ta\u00edno Chief to discuss healing and the environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 27, 2024 \u2013 Jamaican Ta\u00edno Chief Kasike Kalaan Nibronix Kaiman will visit the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Wednesday, April 3<\/strong>, to discuss his culture and to address \u201cstories as medicine\u201d in his home context. His presentation, \u201cStories as Medicine: Taino and African Healing and the Environment\u201d will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Carothers Library Galanti Lounge, 15 Lippitt Road. This event is free and open to the public. It will also be live-streamed via the College of Arts and Sciences YouTube page<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ta\u00edno, a historic indigenous people of Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and the Lesser Antilles, were largely believed to have been wiped out following Columbus\u2019 arrival to the Caribbean in 1492, by slavery, war, European disease and starvation. However, evidence has shown that despite their numbers dropping significantly, their culture survived and continues to thrive today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiman is a Ta\u00edno medicine man and was chosen and appointed Kasike, a Ta\u00edno Chief, for the Yukayeke Yamaye Guani (Jamaican Humming Bird Ta\u00edno People). In \u201cStories as Medicine,\u201d Kaiman will address climate change, the disconnection with environmental cycles and possibilities for healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This talk is part of a joint endeavor between the Departments of Africana Studies at the 溏心vlog免费B站 and Northeastern University to strategize with Ta\u00edno Kasike Kalaan Kaiman on an Indigenous and African project in the rural Jamaican village of Woodside in the parish of St. Mary. The collaboration is also being supported by a five day research retreat at The Manship Artist residency in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, where Chief Kalaan, 溏心vlog免费B站 Professor Catherine John and Northeastern University Professor Kris Manjapra will spend joint time strategizing about African and Indigenous collaborations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John, 溏心vlog免费B站 Africana Studies department chair, who has been working in the community since 2000, says there has been renewed interest in raising people’s awareness about the living nature of Ta\u00edno history in Jamaica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Part of Kaiman\u2019s discussion, she said, will focus on how knowledge of place and knowledge of history are both integral to generational healing, as is the need to share and record stories about the natural world and its significance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe sacredness of the physical world is very much emphasized in indigenous cultures, but to what extent is this knowledge still living, functional knowledge? And how can it benefit us in terms of our worldview\u2013our understanding of how to treat the planet, our understanding of how to interact with each other?\u201d said John.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 March 27, 2024 \u2013 Jamaican Ta\u00edno Chief Kasike Kalaan Nibronix Kaiman will visit the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Wednesday, April 3, to discuss his culture and to address \u201cstories as medicine\u201d in his home context. His presentation, \u201cStories as Medicine: Taino and African Healing and the Environment\u201d will take place at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":93653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93823,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93652\/revisions\/93823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}