Her name is not Tequesta. That is what the colonizers called Her. When they killed Her. Over and over again. She was older than them by thousands of years but then they arrived, they stole everything, and they burned the world down. 1513. Early 1800s. Her relations. Her hystories told the truth. Their stories, traditions, and family. The Mayaimi, not Miami.
In 1994, Johann Addlerr, The Österreichische Filmmakerror, came to find Her. He traveled to the place they now call Florida. He found Her there, living all Her ages at once. She is real, but he is a dream. He is a fiction, a fantasy. Johann Addlerr is a parafictional person, a version of the author. His name is jonCates. He went looking for Her in Mayaimi. Miami. Florida. The killers came during Pascua Florida, the “Feast of Flowers” they said. Destroyers. Of worlds. They claimed.
Pope Nicholas V issued the Dum Diversas in 1452, and then the Romanus Pontifex in 1455. These papal decrees codified settler colonial imperialism’s Catholic justifications for genocide, enslavement, theft, resource extraction, and the…
