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| | Maximilian C. Forte: 'Our Amerindian Ancestors': The State, the Nation, and the Revaluing of Indigeneity in Trinidad ... |
 | | The specific aim of this paper is to outline modern Trinidadian attempts to reconstruct the indigene, the Carib, in a nationalist and anti-colonialist light, while utilizing the symbolism of Amerindian indigeneity as a device for creating a sense of local primordiality and of territorial continuity with antiquity. |
 | | This is done by focusing on the thought of nationalists, local historiographies of places such as Arima and Siparia, school texts, media reports, advertising, the performing arts, and in state recognition and support of the fledgling Santa Rosa Carib Communityculminating in a process where the society seems to have "rediscovered" its "Carib heritage". |
 | | This is evidenced in the thought of nationalists, local historiographies of places such as Arima and Siparia, school texts, media reports, advertising, the performing arts, and in state recognition and support of the fledgling Santa Rosa Carib Communityculminating in a process where the society seems to have 'rediscovered' its very own 'Carib heritage'. |
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