I have to agree with a lot of what you have so passionately expressed in your posts about the archelogical site and the drama that it has caused in Puerto Rico. I also agree with SatinDoll (and apparently also with you) that ultimately the people of Puerto Rico deserve to get their artifacts back. I am by no means a conservative (very very far from it) but there are times when even a liberal can see through the smokescreen. Many of us in the Taino Resurgence movement (Liberals though we may be) find ourselves totally in agreement with your opinion of the corruption and hypocricy that lies behind the facade of outrage in the official position of the current Puerto Rican governmental establishment in the face of the facts surrounding this archeological discovery and others. We feel that the local authorities have been very negligent in the care and administration of archeological sites such as Gaguana near Utuado and a number of local Taino Resurgence leaders drove that point home four years ago in the form of a take-over of and hunger strike in the Caguana site. The protesters were forcibly removed by Puerto Rican police and jailed briefly. The event has become a yearly observed historical landmark in Puerto Rico and here in the Taino dispora of the mainland which we have come to call “El Grito De Caguana”. We Tainos do want the artefacts (especially the human remains) to be returned to Puerto Rico by New South but certainly not to a hypocritical and unscrupulous adminstration in whose hads it may be in even more danger than in the hands of the archeologists who originally desecrated them.
TAINO TI!
Power to the People. That’s the way it should be. I was moved by the injustices I saw, and they weren’t by us.
P.S. - Certainly you understand that views I may express on here are my own opinions, and not necessarily the opinions of those that are farther up the food chain? Just thought I needed to state that before I was quoted for some reason.
Have a Blessed day...You are a proud people.