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Reconstruction of Taino village, via Michal Zalewski//CC BY-SA 3.0 When Columbus landed in the New World in 1492, the first humans he encountered were the Taino, an Arawak people, then the most ...

For many diasporic Latines, an inevitable argument arises around identity and language. If you don’t speak the primary language of your home country, whether that’s Spanish, French or Portuguese, the ...

SAN LORENZO, Puerto Rico _ 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 cassava ...

Once upon a time, the Taino people inhabited much of the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico, present-day Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica and other islands. Then Christopher Columbus arrived in ...

Five centuries after it was largely obliterated by the Spanish conquistadors, the long-lost culture of a vanished civilisation is being rediscovered by British and local archaeologists. Before the ...

José Barreiro is scholar emeritus on History and Culture, National Museum of the American Indian. He led the documentation of the oral histories and traditions of eastern Cuba´s Native communities and ...

Connecticut state lawmakers passed a House resolution this week recognizing the heritage of the Caribbean’s Indigenous community and its impact on Connecticut. HR 10, “Resolution Recognizing the ...

Local Taíno peoples are holding close to their chests the whereabouts of their valuable indigenous ancestral relics and possessions out of fear that the Government and other groups might seek to claim ...