A 19th Century Maroon lady with Taino ancestors would most likely prepare and eat bammies from cassava.

An East Indian lady would make roti from available flour.

She ate bammie, so her long black hair was mostly likely inherited from her Red Skinned folk.

"Arawaks had broad noses and their nostrils probably flared wide. Their hair was straight and black, but coarse.

From: http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~sd65/carib_history/arawaks.htm

Check the Caney down the page, that's the form I'm considering for shelter. If there are any objections, now is the time to let me know. I'd use a metal roof as the best available practical material and would look for a tall petrified/long dead and standing 'rock stone red bullet wood' for the center pole, wood people know what I'm refering to. 35' would be good. With branches, we'll do the cutting. I may have to go into North St Elizabeth.

Which of our millions of ancestors should we ignore or deny?