Guantanamo – A panel held by the Indo-Cuban Ramírez Rojas family and representatives of indigenous peoples of North America captured the attention of the participants in the press panel of the 18th Gibara International Film Festival (FICGibara).
At the event, Idalis Ramírez, daughter of Chief Panchito, transmitted the message of brotherhood and family unity among the different peoples and cultures, while thanking the organizers of the Gibara Festival for helping to come true her father’s dream of making known to the world the existence of the Indian people in Cuba, which never became extinct, and multiplies through generations with a decisive contribution to the national identity.
By the way, Geo Garden, a Cuban American who identifies with indigenous thought, expressed the importance of the spiritual bond and called to listen to the call of the ancestors to save Mother Earth.
For his part, the president of the event, Sergio Benvenuto Solas, stressed that it is a necessary space to unite people from different aboriginal cultures, since it is the first panel to address the topic, while he recognized the Casa Gitana Cultural Project for contributing to the cultural interconnection of peoples from different regions of the world.
At the end of the meeting, David Gutiérrez, an indigenous North American, revealed the wish of his grandfather from the Dakota tribes, who left as his last will to be buried in Cuba, since it was the only country where he received treatment as a human being, with brotherhood and solidarity, all of which allowed the exchange of ancestral knowledge at the Casa Gitana, where representatives of indigenous peoples from Russia, Ukraine, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and Cuba came together.
Translated by Liubis Balart
