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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Native people of Hispaniola were long believed to have died out. But a journalist’s search for their descendants turned up surprising results Robert M. Poole - Contributing editor, Smithsonian If ...

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 ...