Chief Joseph RiverWind is a documented Arawak Taino from his home island of Boriken (Puerto Rico). He was appointed by his Tribal Council as a Taino Peace Chief, serves his people as the Ambassador of the Descendants of Puerto Rico's First Nations, and is their representative at the National Congress of American Indians in Washington D.C. Joseph is also of Sephardic Jewish (Bnei-Anusim) ancestry from Northern Spain whose ancestors fled the Inquisition. He is an honorably discharged U.S. Army Active Duty and National Guard veteran having been deployed on humanitarian missions.