🌍🏺 Indigenous Peoples of the Caribbean Islands Long before European voyages the Caribbean was home to vibrant Indigenous nations who shaped island life through agriculture trade religion and complex social systems. The Taíno lived across the Greater Antilles with matrilineal inheritance and Cacique leadership while cultivating cassava maize and yams near coastal routes that encouraged networked trade. Their religious practices honored zemis which guided fertility weather and community order. C

The Greater Antilles: A Guide to the Caribbean Islands #jamaica #travel #caribbean

Step into the rich spiritual history of the Greater Antilles at the National Museum of the American Indian (@smithsoniannmai). Museum program specialist Bert Correa, a descendant of the Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, walks us through the Zemis on display and the origins of these sculpted deities. 🎥 This is an outtake from our longform @foundedbynyc video series “From Times Square to the World.” Link in bio to watch it all! 🗽 #FoundedByNYC is @nyctourism’s commemoration of New York City’s