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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 ...

The Smithsonian will host a symposium on the survival of Taíno language, identity and material culture in contemporary Caribbean consciousness Wednesday, April 13, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Room 4018 ...

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 ...

The exhibition “Taíno: Native Heritage and Identity in the Caribbean” complicates Caribbean heritage and captivates visitors by reassessing the past, present and future of Native peoples and their ...

An ancient tooth has proven Taíno indigenous Americans are not extinct, as long believed, but have living descendants in the Caribbean today. Researchers made the discovery when they used the ...

SAN ANTONIO — In fewer than 100 years after the arrival of Columbus, the Taíno people of the Greater Antilles — Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Hispaniola — were wiped out, the victims of disease and ...

The auction house says none of the objects to be sold in Paris on Wednesday are from illicit sources. But to those with roots in the Indigenous Caribbean culture, no price can be put on its history.

The Smithsonian Latino Center will host a symposium on the survival of Taíno language, identity and material culture in contemporary Caribbean consciousness Friday, Aug. 26, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in ...