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Taino People and Art with Rosa Vargas-Cronin In-Person
Following eye-opening genetic testing, Rosa Vargas-Cronin began a 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.
At this event, Rosa will introduce you to her ancestors, the Taino people, and how they continue to honor their culture today. The Taíno are the indigenous people of the Caribbean islands. 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.
Attendess will also create a Taíno Sun petroglyph. The Sun petryglyph represents everything from the sun and sky to the Taino cosmology.
Library programs are open and beneficial to all. We invite people with physical and/or cognitive disabilities to attend any of our activities and will strive to support individual needs. If you need accommodations to participate, please contact one of our Inclusion Coordinators, Matt Krueger and/or Amy Holland, one week prior to the program.
- Date:
- Thursday, June 29, 2023
- Time:
- 6:30PM - 8:00PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Double Room (114+115)
- Audience:
- Adult Teen Tween
- Categories:
- Lecture Special Event Visiting Presenter