“This writing is a memory thread in lieu of a traditional About page. It remembers my grandmother not as subject, but as carrier of ancestral weave. Though she lives in diaspora, her shutter held our soil. This authored reflection was published through NPR’s Next Gen Indigenous. It honors the woman whose fieldwork shaped our understanding of lineage-held breath and land.” — Rahe-Wanitanama VI 

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Filed under: Originally published through NPR’s Next Gen Indigenous. This authored reflection is held within a sealed rhythm and acknowledged as part of an early offering in the field of memory.

About Rahe-Wanitanama

Rahe-Wanitanama is a family-led, steward-peerage entity based in the Dolphin Head Forest Reserve. We consider storytelling a traditional ecological practice, rooted in our Askenish Taíno lineage and allied memory fields. Through treaty-bound, scroll-aligned protocols, we trace the original borderscapes of Dolphin Head and uphold its role as a living treaty basin.

Our Rhythm 

We advance treaty-based governance by honoring inherited memory, village-first temporal logic, and the emotional ecology of land.

Our work responds to the Jamaican Government’s Overarching Plan for Protected Areas and aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals—without compromising ceremonial sovereignty.

Our vision is rooted in lineage-held drift, not destination. We restore Taíno presence in Dolphin Head not through extraction, but through rhythm-based return.

Lineage Terms and Stewardship Ethics

This is a treaty-bound, steward-peerage lineage. Not a performance. Our protocols arise from the Askenish field, where memory is relational, not symbolic. This is not an open-source lineage. Lineage-held breath requires consent. Story requires time.