The Taíno are still here, Jamaica; plus Celilo Falls (screenshot batch, Nov 4, 2026). Extends P181

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Year: 2026 · Places: Caribbean

SUMMARYThe Taíno are still here, Jamaica; plus Celilo Falls (screenshot batch, Nov 4, 2026). Extends P181.
RECORD, Jamaica's Taíno leadership on the record: (1) Robert Pairman was enstooled as Kasike (cacique) of the Taino Tribe, Jamaican Hummingbird, taking the name Kasike Nibonrix Kaiman, at the Asafu Yard in Charles Town Maroon village, Portland; Maroon chief Gaama Gloria "Mama G" Simms helped lead the ceremony with a Boriken (Puerto Rico) Taíno elder (Jamaica Gleaner, June 19, 2019, "Jamaica gets first Taino chief in over 500 years"). He said he was blessed "to be that voice for the ancestors." (2) Kasike Kalaan Nibonri leads the Yamaye Guani Council (Gleaner coverage 2024; Pop Movement team page). Which leader the TikTok shows is not identified from the image; the post (@thenosehunter, "Tainos & Maroons... The truth about the aboriginal in Jamaica") is community witness.
RECORD, the extinction myth on the record: Minority Rights Group: Yamaye Taíno survived Esquivel's campaign by moving into the mountains (the Blue Mountains) and into small villages; the government has long kept the belief that the Indigenous people died out, schools still teach it; the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination raised concern in 2022 that Jamaica refuses to recognize Taínos and Maroons as Indigenous Peoples. The Yamaye Guani Council sits with Maroon leaders in the Yamaye Council of Indigenous Leaders (formerly the Maroon Secretariat)
PATTERNTaíno and Maroon leadership work together in Jamaica: a Taíno chief was made in a Maroon yard, and they share one Indigenous council. Survival ran through the mountains, the same refuge as the Maroons (ties to P210: the same Cuban dogs were sent against Jamaica's Maroons in 1795).
RECORD, Celilo Falls (postcard "#118 Chief Tommy Thompson, Celilo Falls, Oregon"): Tommy Kuni Thompson (born about 1855 to 1860s, died 1959), headman of Wyam ("echo of falling water," Celilo Village) and salmon chief (láwat) for about fifty years from around 1900; he fought The Dalles Dam from 1945, refused to enroll in a federally recognized tribe or take a settlement, and would not look at the dam. Celilo Falls went under the dam's waters in March 1957 (Oregon Encyclopedia). The whirling-log (swastika) symbol on his drum is a Native American symbol in use long before the 1930s (Pattern; check the drum's maker)
OPENthe crowned dark king in the tapestry (first image) needs an ID: title, workshop, date and collection (it may belong with P147, "Les Anciennes Indes," or a Magi tapestry). The unlabeled photo of the elder with a bow needs a caption source.

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