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June 2018 International Charles Town Maroon Conference & Festival Magazine

Welcome!

Mantee.... welcome..... welcome to the 10th
Annual Maroon Conference and Festival!!!

This year we the Charles Town Maroon decided to
develop a better conference and festival than ever. We
have a bigger and better Healing Village amongst a
whole range of delights for all our visitors.

The Marron people of Charles Town are concerned for So come and explore the celebration and festivity! And
the environment that we leave our children and so we the different types of food presented, the dynamic
are featuring sustainable development for the future speakers and the drumming and dancing. We welcome
generations. you people of Jamaica and from other parts of the
Caribbean, and the wider world, to come and be a part
of the experience. Your experience is your knowledge
We are aware that the decisions that we make now will
....medasie...
have an impact for the next seven generations. So we
are aware of the need to leave a sustainable legacy for
these generations just as our leaders have in the past. Kim Douglas
All Maroon are aware of the need to increase the Acting Colonel Charles Town Maroons
knowledge of the history and culture of our people.
This is how we can learn to sustain ourselves into the
future. Healthy land, healthy water, healthy people.

Our Taino and African forefathers and foremothers
lived very well from the land. The way they grew their
own food and gathered from the forest and used what
they had for herbal remedies, clothing and utensils has
been passed down to us. This is the knowledge that we
can build on into the future. Our plan is to broaden this
knowledge base to make a sustainable development
for the Maroon people of Charles Town.

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