Taino Documentary

Somehow we have forgotten about this documentary on the Taino. It raises some interesting questions, such as when a yucayeque can be considered a town or city. Also, it is rather respectful of "neo-Taino" claims of cultural continuity and survival. The scene featuring Puerto Ricans recreating the cohoba ritual and the use of a duho is interesting but hard to imagine it being close to what the actual practice looked like. A self-proclaimed cacique claims to have been able to revive it based on oral traditions passed down throughout the centuries in Puerto Rico. Of course, it is difficult to see how such a ceremony that was aberrant to Spanish and Catholic authorities could have been reconstructed from 20th and 21st century Puerto Rican oral traditions.