Literature
"When the palace burned and my mother died, I was only three. My grandmother died of the aftereffects when I was just five. I ascended to the throne knowing nothing...
[...] The filthy Sai Gamulu! They took everything. My mother, my grandmother, and the memory of my people that had been passed down for three hundred years!
[...] My ancestor came down from the far side of the Afon Noah. That is the only memory of my people with which I was left. I do not know what gods lived in that land far across the mountains or why she left it to come here."
[...] The filthy Sai Gamulu! They took everything. My mother, my grandmother, and the memory of my people that had been passed down for three hundred years!
[...] My ancestor came down from the far side of the Afon Noah. That is the only memory of my people with which I was left. I do not know what gods lived in that land far across the mountains or why she left it to come here."
— Halumiya, The Beast Player
Rain: How come you never told me the old Taíno stories?
Sebastian: I don't know them.
Rain: But your abuela was Taíno. Didn't she...
Sebastian: Oh, she tried. But I had no patience. You have to understand, kiddo. In those days, the schools here didn't teach our culture. Heck, they discouraged it. Told us we should be Americans. And the mythology of America was George Washington and the cherry tree.
Sebastian: I don't know them.
Rain: But your abuela was Taíno. Didn't she...
Sebastian: Oh, she tried. But I had no patience. You have to understand, kiddo. In those days, the schools here didn't teach our culture. Heck, they discouraged it. Told us we should be Americans. And the mythology of America was George Washington and the cherry tree.
