THEY ARE A SAD FOOTNOTE amid the often brutal history of the colonization of the New World, an Indian tribe vanquished and supposedly obliterated by the Spanish conquistadors. Yet the Taino Nation a ...

BOSTON — The Massachusetts House of Representatives honored the Higuayagua Taino Luku Kairi Tribal Nation with a formal resolution Wednesday. The Taino people are the indigenous forebears of people ...

For Michael Alvarez, a Puerto Rican born and raised in New York, proving his identity as a member of an Indian tribe thought to be long extinct was a matter of a single word. “There was an Indian word ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The National Museum of the American Indian and the Smithsonian Latino Center presented Taíno: A Symposium in Conversation with the Movement on ...

A friend pointed me to the heated comment section of this article in Nature, Rebuilding the genome of a hidden ethnicity. The issue is that Nature originally stated that the Taino, the native people ...

Halloween is the time of year when people dress as something other than what they are, with these costumes sometimes being a satire of oppressed people’s cultures including my culture: Native American ...