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The First Peoples continue to call for equality in recognition.

But, there's some delight with the interest young people are showing in the cultural practices.

This, from the Chief of the Santa Rosa First Peoples.
Transcript
00:00We pick up with the procession as it's leaving the Santa Rosa RC Church in Arima.
00:21The Santa Rosa First Peoples celebrated the feast of Saint Rose de Lima on Sunday.
00:27This year marks 238 years of celebrating this festival.
00:32So that it is no longer heavily based in the Catholic Church and that is alright because
00:38spirituality crosses religions.
00:41Archbishop Jason Gordon was at the church for the celebrations and according to the
00:46First Peoples Chief, the Archbishop renewed an apology to the First Peoples.
00:53When somebody at that level of the church recognizes the wrong that the church has done
00:59and apologizes, it can only, I think, augur well for good relations with the church.
01:04He says young people remain interested in the cultural practices but the First Peoples
01:10are still wanting equality.
01:12The Afro-Trinidadians that celebrate African emancipation and Indian arrival, the First
01:19Peoples need recognition at that level.
01:26Anselm Gibbs, TV6 News.
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