Dear Editor,
For years I taught history and made my classes lively as I presented the Maroons as warriors, champions, challengers, the first set of no-nonsense people, and winners supreme. But today I wonder if that group was exterminated like the Arawaks and that information is hidden in dark pages at the Institute of Jamaica.
I keep hearing about foreign invaders who occupy the Cockpit Country, the island's last sanctuary, and they are allegedly searching, digging, mining, and shipping our ore to foreign places. If this is so, and I believe it is, then where are the Maroons we've read so much about? Have they become paper people; fussing about costume, conch shell, corn pone and new dance steps for Festival, or did they die out?
This is no time to sit and stare. There's too much smoke in front of this fire.
Mills Blake
Concerned
Where are the Maroons we read about?
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For years I taught history and made my classes lively as I presented the Maroons as warriors, champions, challengers, the first set of no-nonsense people, and winners supreme. But today I wonder if that group was exterminated like the Arawaks and that information is hidden in dark pages at the Institute of Jamaica.
I keep hearing about foreign invaders who occupy the Cockpit Country, the island's last sanctuary, and they are allegedly searching, digging, mining, and shipping our ore to foreign places. If this is so, and I believe it is, then where are the Maroons we've read so much about? Have they become paper people; fussing about costume, conch shell, corn pone and new dance steps for Festival, or did they die out?
This is no time to sit and stare. There's too much smoke in front of this fire.
Mills Blake
Concerned
Where are the Maroons we read about?
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