Ph.D Linguistics, Android Developer @Microsoft (Flipgrid), Afro Caribbean & Indigenous (Kalinago) || Personal account. Opinions, RTs and likes are my own.
Oct 11, 2021 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Happy Indigenous People's Day! Please remember that Columbus landed in the Caribbean, and never set foot on the United States mainland. He interacted with the the Indigenous Kalinago and Taino, and we still exist! (Incoming thread 🧵👇🏾):
In writing this because most of what is generally written about Indigenous Caribbean people in history books is inaccurate, and I feel like I can spend my whole life correcting it. First up, let's talk names:
