3.05 COVENTRY STAKES 6f ITV 9-2
Arawak, Brother Bear, 6 De Bruyne Horse, 7 Denaar, 9 Murillo, 12 Nebo, Rajasinghe, 14 Romanised, Zaman, 20 Aqabah, Prince Of The Dark.
at this filly has just been aces I think she is up to the task WESLEY'S ASCOT LADY IS A CHAMP: 2016 Queen Mary star Lady Aurelia, crossing the street at Ascot, is the 3/1f for Tuesday's King's Stand Stakes Tuesday 3.05 Coventry Stakes
Arawak 3.40 King's Stand Lady Aurelia 5.35 Windsor Castle Elizabeth Darcy Nootka Sound Wednesday 3.05 Queen Mary Happy Like a Fool 5.35 Sandringham Hcp Con Te Partiro Thursday 2.30 Norfolk Stakes McErin Friday 2.30 Albany Stakes Fairyland Princess Peggy 3.40 Commonw'th Cup Bound For Nowhere
At our first stop, the Dow Hill Interpretation Centre, a fascinating 15-minute presentation filled us in on the history of the island, from the days of the
Arawak people to the naming of Antigua by Christopher Columbus (after the Santa Maria de la Antigua church in Seville) and on to independence in 1981.
The Gulf of Mexico has been navigated by
Arawak and Mayan and Mississippian peoples, by Columbus and Cortes and Cabeza de Vaca, by slave ships and by refugees of slavery and white supremacy, by US marines invading both Mexico and Cuba, by drug traffickers and petroleum industries in a long process of globalization and localized resistance, and by climatic forces like the deity Hurakan who activated our deepest origins in the Popul Vuh.
The archipelago had once been the home to tens of thousands of Carib and
Arawak Indians, sacrificed on the altar of Manifest Destiny.
Most interesting for me, however, were the cave paintings or
Arawak petroglyphs on the rocks.
They date back thousands of years and the
Arawak people are believed to have held religious ceremonies here.
The title in full refers to a god revered as the Creator by Guyana's native
Arawak people; its second half, naima, echoes the name of a ballad recorded in 1959 by John Coltrane, whose work is a key source of inspiration for Bowling.
A provocative essay by Michael Heckenberger, for example, problematizes the notion of an
Arawak Diaspora, using the term Diaspora to emphasize cultural fluidity in Amazonia, the homeland of the Saladoid (the Taino ancestors).
The traveler indicated that the five carved clay items were
Arawak or Taino artifacts that were given to him as gift in the Dominican Republic.
The Ashaninka ethnic group belongs to the
Arawak linguistic family.
