We met the Secretary of the Interior for the USA Deb Haaland , she is also the first woman and first Native American to ever have that job, and this is the first time in history a USA Secretary of the Interior has ever met with Caribbean Indigenous leaders, furthermore, we were invited (with our airfares sponsored) to come to St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands to meet with her, we did not request of her to meet with us, as we did not even know she was going to be the VIP we were flown in to meet until we got here to St Thomas in the USA Virgin Islands - as the Governor’s office just told us our presence was requested for a very important meeting - but they could not tell us with whom until we got here. It was merely a courtesy call, a respectful personal and private acknowledgment on her part - for the continued existence of the region's surviving Indigenous peoples - as an indigenous person herself.
Representing the Caribbean Indigenous Peoples here at the meeting were close allies - Chief Maekiaphan Phillips of the State recognized Guiania Taino tribe of the US Virgin Islands, Chief R. Mukaro Borrero of the Guiania Taino Tribe of Boriken (Puerto Rico), and myself representing my Eagle Clan Lokono-Arawaks of Barbados and Guyana. Our brother Chief Lorenzo Sanford of Dominica arrived a little late for the meeting but was present to make history again in the Caribbean - when we signed an unprecedented 4 Tribe joint inter-tribal treaty with each other today (12 November 2022) - on my 49th birthday. Our multiple film projects about Caribbean Indigenous heroes of yesteryear were mentioned also - to enthusiastic support.
Together our allied Indigenous NGOs - the Caribbean Amerindian Development Organization/CADO, and the United Confederation of Taino People/UCTP - are the largest, most dominant, most powerful, and most influential indigenous NGOs in the Caribbean, and the only Indigenous force that has Indigenous Tribal members in the greatest number of countries in AND bordering - the Caribbean Sea.
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