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ISSUES IN CARIBBEAN AMERINDIAN STUDIES is a collection of online full-text papers, sourced on- and off-site, reviewed and published or approved for linking by the Editors of the Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink.


Current Managing Editor:
Maximilian C. Forte
Contributing Editors: Lynne Guitar, Jorge Estevez, Gerard Collomb


Items appearing in ICAS are reviewed by one or more editors prior to publication. In most cases, items published in ICAS have been previously presented at conferences organized by scholarly associations, or previously published by the news media. The editors of ICAS also invite independent researchers to submit works that merit wider attention.

Contents

Volume VII, December 2006 - December 2007

The Final Report on the Gli Gli Leeward Island Expedition-May 2007 - Aragorn Dick-Read

A Note on a Radiocarbon Date for the Rupununi Phase, Southern Guyana - Mark G. Plew

New Notes about Taíno Music and its Influence on Contemporary Dominican Life - Lynne Guitar

Nuevas notas sobre la música taína y su influencia en la vida dominicana contemporánea - Lynne Guitar

Curanderos at "el Cachote:" Eloy Rodriguez and the Cloudforest - José Barreiro

Cuban Journal, Parts One and Two - José Barreiro
 

Volume VI, August 2004 - August 2005

The Guajiro Who Killed a Güije (an oral tale from Cuba) - José Barreiro

Hunting North American Indians in Barbados - Patricia Penn Hilden

Writing the Caribs Out: The Construction and Demystification of the 'Deserted Island' Thesis for Trinidad - Maximilian C. Forte (PDF format)

Extinction: The Historical Trope of Anti-Indigeneity in the Caribbean - Maximilian C. Forte (PDF format)
 

Volume V, June 2003 - June 2004

Indigenous Puerto Rico: DNA evidence upsets established history - Rick Kearns

The Origin and Survival of the Taino Language - David Wahayona Campos Reyes

How the Amerindians of Arima Lost Their Lands: Notes from Primary and Other Historical Sources, 1802-1880 - Maximilian C. Forte, Ph.D.

 

Volume IV, February 2002 - February 2003

On the Rights of the Aboriginal Peoples of French Guyana - Alexis Tiouka
Du droits des peuples indigènes de la Guyane française - Alexis Tiouka

A New Reality for Venezuela's Indigenous Peoples - Domingo Sánchez P.
Una Nueva Realidad para los Indígenas de Venezuela - Domingo Sánchez P.

'We Are Not Extinct': The Revival of Carib and Taíno Identities, the Internet, and the Transformation of Offline Indigenes into Online 'N-digenes' - Maximilian C. Forte, Ph.D.
 

Volume III, February 2001 - February 2002

    What Really Happened at Santo Cerro? Origin of the Legend of the Virgin de las Mercedes - Lynne Guitar, PhD

    A Re-consideration of the Native American and African Roots of Garifuna Identity - Joseph Palacio, PhD

    'Our Amerindian Ancestors: The State, the Nation, and the Revaluing of Indigeneity in Trinidad and Tobago - Maximilian C. Forte

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Volume II, October 1999 - October 2000

    The Return of the Taïnos/ Our Own "Lost Tribe" - Richard Kearns

    The Official Academic Story - Extinct but with Influence - Richard Kearns

    Restoration and Outreach/ Conversations with La Nación Taïna in New York - Richard Kearns

    Messages from the Taïno Restoration and Truth Reclamation/ We Never Disappeared - Richard Kearns

    Nación Taïna: Recovery and Restoration of the Culture - Richard Kearns

    The "Carlisle 62" - Valerie Nanaturey Vargas Stehney
     

Volume I, September 1998 - September 1999

  1. The International Indigene: Regional and Global Integration of Caribbean Amerindian Communities - Maximilian C. Forte

  1. Renewed Indigeneity in the Local-Global Continuum and the Political Economy of Tradition among Modern West Indian Caribs - Maximilian C. Forte

  1. From Smoke Ceremonies to Cyberspace: Globalized Indigeneity, Multi-Sited Research, and the Internet - Maximilian C. Forte
     

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