Writing

Selected Publications by Roberto Múkaro Borrero

• Pasteles: An Original Taíno Comfort Food, Medium, December 2019

• A Taíno Perspective on Feminism, Introduction to Feminist Thought and Action, pp. 66-68, Routledge, NY and London 2019  

• Paradise Lost?, World Policy Journal, Vol. XXXIV, No.4, Winter 2017/2018

• Climate Change: On the Frontlines, Cultural Survival Quarterly, Vol. 41, Issue 2, pp. 6-7, June 2017

• U.S. Government is an Unprecedented No Show at Human Rights Hearing, Native News Online, March 2017

• Trump’s Executive Orders Violate Treaties, Indian Country Today, February 2017

• Indigenous Peoples and the Information Society: Emerging uses of ICTs, UNESCO, 2016

• Indigenous Peoples Cannot be Left Behind in the Post-2015 Development Agenda, UN-NGLS, March 2015

• Taino Affirmation in the 21st Century: Proliferating Committees of Consciousness Within and Out of the Caribbean, Taino Legacies, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, June 2013

• Conflict Resolution from a Taino Perspective: A Look at Traditional Taino Forms of Conflict Resolution and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (pp. 4-15), Eastern & Indigenous Perspectives on Conflict Resolution, International Center for Cultural Studies USA Inc., Pennsylvania, October 2013

• A response to the claim of Taíno extinction, The Venture, December 2011

• Native Americans – Caribbean before 1492 (pp.232-234) & Puerto Rico to 1560 (pp.259-260), Encyclopedia of Latin America, Facts on File, 1 edition,  Vol. 1, Amerindians through Foreign Colonization – Prehistory to 1560,  p. 432, May 2010

• Caribbean Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change, pp.71-77, WIPO – LIENIP, (English and Russian translation), May 2009

• Pasteles are Taino, La Diva Latina Magazine, December 2008

• Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Knowledge, and Climate Change: Remembering the Seventh Generation to Come, pp.50-51, Celebrating NGOs: 60 Years with the United Nations – The Journey Continues, United Nations NGO-DPI Conference, Sept. 2007

• Indigenous Medicinal Plants of the Americas: An Introduction to the Development, Usage, And Legacy of Natural Resources by American Indians, International Center for Cultural Studies, Mumbai,  India, 2003

• Rethinking Taíno: A Taíno Perspective, pp.139-160, Taino Revival: Critical Perspectives on Puerto Rican Identity, Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College, City University of New York, 1999 / Markus Weiner, NY, 2001 (Republished)

• Korokote, Red Ink Magazine, University of Arizona, Vol. 9 No.2/Vol. 10 No. 1, p. 67, 2001

Boianani: A Taino Girl’s First Adventure

Author: Lesley-Gail Atkinson-Swaby, 2019

The lifestyle of Jamaican Tainos has been vividly exposed in a children’s storybook titled, “Boianani: A Taino Girl’s First Adventure” by Dr Lesley-Gail Atkinson Swaby.

Huareo: Story of a Jamaican Cacique

Author: Fred Kennedy, 2015

When Huareo inherits the role of cacique, he leads the Taino into a prosperous life until he receives word one day from neighbouring Haiti of strangers sailing and laying waste to their villages. Determined not to let the same fate befall his people, Huareo did not welcome or trust the Spanish strangers when they first arrived in Yamaye (Jamaica) in 1494. In 1509, the Spaniards return to the island with the sole purpose of gaining control and the result is something Huareo and his people could never have imagined. Meticulously researched from original sources such the journals of Diego Mendez and Hernando Colon who were marooned in Jamaica on Columbus's fourth voyage, along with other primary and secondary sources and consultation with historians and archaeologists, Fred Kennedy unearths the history of Jamaica's first ancestral heroes.

Contact Roberto Múkaro Borrero

PO Box 4518, NY, NY 10163