Caribbean Indigenous Experiences of Erasure: Movement, Memory and Knowing

The Caribbean world has experienced a centuries-long process of European expansion into their territories. This article outlines the dramatic impact and disruption due to colonization imperialism, ways in which these interlocking systems have shaped contemporary Taino understandings. It examines what it means remem- ber our ancestors, histories that persist are embedded fabric landscape everyday memories, culture, lifeways permeate many names, places, lands. paper memory discourse knowledge as enactments embodied presence life.