Dear Editor, I am writing to explore the topic of Jamaica's identity and heritage, specifically in relation to the Taino people who were the original inhabitants of our land. While acknowledging the presence of East Indians and Chinese who arrived during the era of indentured labor after the abolition of slavery in 1865, the majority of the population, comprising individuals with black or brown skin, is believed to have African ancestry following the eradication of the Arawakan Indians by the Spanish. This sets Jamaica apart from other Spanish-occupied West Indian islands like Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, and Surinam, which retained a small native Indian population despite the Spanish invasion.

Read the rest of the letter in the Jamaican Gleaner or The Jacobin Magazine. Also, The Neoliberal Commentary and The Neoliberal Corporation Moral Magazine Journals.

https://urbanindianheritagesociety.org/

PETITION ORGANIZED BY URBAN INDIAN HERITAGE SOCIETY (UIHS) FOR THE PASSAGE OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN INCLUSION ACT.

The Urban Indian Heritage Society (UIHS), and members there within, have created this petition to address the grievances of erasure, policide and ethnocidal misconduct of the United States Government against the Misclassified American Indian. The same body of people are hereby demanding reclassification of ethnic birthrights, removal or vacating of Federal and State occupied American Indian lands, return of assets, restitution, punitive damages, and institutional reform. Egregious acts were perpetrated against misclassified American Indians by the United States Government. The fore-mentioned American Indian is hereby demanding immediate remedy for their descendants and their assets. These demands are hereby listed:

Reclassification

etc.

Removal / Return

etc.

Resolve

Restitution

etc.

See Petition.

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