The National Museum of the American Indian and the Smithsonian Latino Center presented Taíno: A Symposium in Conversation with the Movement on September 8, 2018 to celebrate the exhibition Taíno: ...
The first indigenous people encountered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 are not always widely recognized. Patricia Chali’naru Dones, a Newton resident, works to preserve the culture of Puerto Rico’s ...
For as long as historians have posited that the Caribbean’s indigenous Taíno population was wiped out within 50 to 100 years of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the New World, individuals have ...
Archeologist and curator Stephanie Bailey explained that in her Puerto Rican family, her grandmother never identified as Taino. “My grandmother doesn’t look indigenous, but her mother does, ...
SAN LORENZO, Puerto Rico (AP) – In Puerto Rico's misty, bamboo-studded mountains, elementary school students are studying a nearly extinct language, beating on drums and growing native crops like ...
ST. THOMAS — A new exhibit at the Virgin Islands Children’s Museum is exploring the history and culture of the indigenous Taino people in the territory. The exhibit was developed in partnership with ...
Follow Maekiaphan as she reclaims her Taino heritage. Follow Maekiaphan, a Taino woman from the U.S. Virgin Islands, on her journey to reclaim her Taino heritage and to become the first woman Kasike ...