Looks don’t mean proof. A dive into their lineage, which revealed many mestizo ancestors, offered some evidence. But the real ...

Part 1. Competing historical narratives regarding Taíno extinction -- The stakes of being Taíno -- Historical discourses and debates about Puerto Rico's indigenous trajectory -- Part 2. The Puerto ...

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 ...

Roberto Borrero of The Voice of the Taino People has the latest on two indigenous Taino protesters in Puerto Rico occupaying the Caguana Indigenous Ceremonial Center in Utuado, Puerto Rico. Global ...

Smithsonian magazine reports that 61% of all Puerto Ricans have trace Indigenous Taíno DNA, but historians in the Puerto Rican government claim Indigenous Taíno people have been conquered and wiped ...

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 Taíno, indigenous people of the Caribbean, were the primary inhabitants of what is now Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and The Bahamas. Their cultural and historical ...

The trio is joining forces for Operation Taino Spirit Promise, to deliver supplies to local partners and retrieve plastic waste. Established in 1977, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) is an ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Dozens of activists marched Saturday through the historic part of Puerto Rico's capital, some wearing traditional Taino clothing as they banged on drums and blew on conch ...

A city transportation boss acted like a slavemaster to a Taino Indian underling — even hanging a pair of shackles in the man’s office to make sure he knew his role, a new lawsuit alleges. “I was hurt ...