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The 65th was designated in 1920; its nickname, adopted during the Korean War, stems from Borikén, the Indigenous �ղ�í�Դ� name for Puerto Rico.

Matias, whose Indigenous Nations are Taino and Kichwa, said a more suitable day to honor Native people would be the “summer solstice, which is a powerful day for Indigenous people all over the world. It might be some sort of day that we recognize generally correlating with our connection to the planet.”

The �ղ�í�Դ� Needle Science Institute is part of what Escobar calls a “guerrilla academy,” and the institute’s schedule reads like a revolutionary reboot of the Learning Annex: “chair yoga” sessions led by Margarita Pietri, the widow of the Nuyorican poet Pedro Pietri; a performance by the Harlem proto-hip-hop pioneers the Last Poets; lectures like “Survival Underground” with former members of the Young Lords and Black Panthers.

That concept of “fugivity” is crucial, Escobar said, and is also reflected in the �ղ�í�Դ� Needle Science Institute.

A second piece, “María Guabancex,” is named for the tantrum-prone Taino goddess of wind and chaos, whose destructive ire, sparked by climate change, is expressed as a furious sculptural whirl of ropes, cables and palm branches.