“I work with the moon, I work with the Sun / Sun and Moon lend me its radiance”, with the invocation of the stars that bring light and heat to Mother Earth, Idalis Ramírez Ramírez began her speech in the Third Cuban Indigenous Workshop, this time dedicated to the traditional wisdom of the old Guantanamo aboriginal women.
In the House Museum “Pedro Agustín Pérez”, in the Guantanamo City, the young leader, originally from La Ranchería in the Manuel Tames municipality, place of settlement of the family Ramírez-Rojas ethnic group, assures while openly speaking: “for me this It is an important event and we come from the heart to tell the world, Cuba and Guantanamo that the Indian is here, in La Ranchería, in Yateras, in Manuel Tames and here we are. That's what I feel for my family, so we are gathered here.”
In the Cuban Indigenous Workshop, sponsored by the Provincial Heritage Center and the Provincial Museum, in addition to the Office of the Historian of Baracoa, the Camagüey researcher José Barreiro highlights the publication “El cacique Panchito, testimonio guajiro taíno-campesino de Francisco Ramírez Rojas” that deals with the life of the Ranchería guide and wise man.
The scholar also commented on how important it is to promote the culture and experiences of the Ramírez Rojas family among other descendants in international events in the House of the Americas, in Havana, so that they exchange with other American indigenous groups, it brings the opportunity to the old women to represent themselves who expose their knowledge about nature, the preparation of typical foods such as ajiacos, casabe, different dishes made with corn, remedies with natural herbs, in addition to the spirituality that embraces the lives of these people that still exists.
Finally, in the exchange attended by leaders, families and scholars of the aboriginal heritage in Cuba, the historian of Baracoa, Alejandro Hartman highlights the pride of the Rojas-Ramírez, Leyva, Samón families, which constitute a living heritage of the Cuban easternmost territory, as well as the investigations of his Guantanamo counterpart, José Sánchez Guerra, whose inquiries clear up the legitimacy of facts related to the life and transcendence of indigenous families in the culture and society of Guantanamo, the native name of this land between rivers.