Taíno Legacy

Taíno Legacy is a searing and meditative documentary that confronts the monumental scale of cultural and human destruction unleashed upon the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, beginning with the Taíno of the Caribbean, and seeks to honor and recover the living threads of a nearly extinguished civilization. The film is currently being used as part of Connecticut’s new state curriculum, and for now it is being presented as a proof of concept.

Carlos Torre is a professor at Southern Connecticut State University, past president of the New Haven Board of Education, and former assistant dean of Yale College. He is a member of the curriculum development committee for Connecticut’s mandated curriculum on African American, Black/Puerto Rican, and Latino studies. He founded the Latino and Native American Film Festival at SCSU, promoting education and representation.