I know that the loss of life people on the island suffered from Hurricane Maria was not simply the result of an extreme weather event. The casualties are also the result of the colonial legacy that includes racism and years of neglect.

Violence comes in many forms, some more subtle than others. Indigenous Peoples are not your mascots.

Fast-tracked development often means that indigenous people and their territories get run over and their rights are not taken into consideration.

Would others like their grandparents or great-grandparents to be dug up and put on display? How do you explain to your children why their ancestors are on display and not other groups

To remain silent is to be complicit in the face of the increasing injustice, racism, xenophobia, and intolerance we are currently witnessing today.

...the bottom line is Columbus Day is just a celebration of genocide.

We need a seat at the table … If we’re not at the table, we’re probably on the menu.

...people should have the right to be who they are and not what others tell them to be. All peoples should have a right to dignity and identity is an important part of this ideal.

Disadvantages faced by indigenous peoples are related to dispossession and exacerbated by powerlessness and poverty.

I have a real problem when those people preferring to affirm an African or even a Spanish side to their history say that I can't affirm who I am as an indigenous person, as though everybody else is entitled to be who they are on our ancestral homeland, except us.