Taino Daka

"Taino Daka"

Producer/Director/Editor - Alex Zacarias

A man is on a journey to reclaim his Caribbean indigenous identity as a

Taino. History books say that the Taino People have been extinct for the

past 525 years since their first encounter with Christopher Columbus on

his first voyage to the New World. He is faced with many obstacles both

from within and from institutions that continue to keep the Taino People

in the past. “TAINO DAKA (I AM)” documentary explores Taino history,

culture and the indigenous identity throughout the Caribbean and the

Diaspora. The Taino are reclaiming their identity and just as history

wrote them out of history they are rewriting themselves back into

history