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“Are you a bruja (witch)?” I asked Abuela Petra on a hot summer day in New York. I wanted to know more about her fortune telling business.
Abuela stared at me with a distant gaze. I felt drops of sweat glistening on my forehead as I remembered Abuela’s devotion to the Virgin Mary. In a tremulous voice I asked: “Did I insult you?”
Connect with your Taíno ancestry, Abuela said when I complained about my stomach ache.
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"Why is the ceiba sacred?" I learned in school that the ceiba pentandra was Puerto Rico's official national tree. Mrs. Flores, my elementary school teacher, explained that the Taínos, the island's Native Indigenous habitants, considered the ceiba a sacred tree.
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For folks who have the day off this Monday, October 12 in celebration of Columbus Day, the holiday may seem like a good enough idea.
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