Across the Caribbean, there is growing interest in the historical, cultural, and genetic legacies of Native peoples. In increasing numbers, individuals, families, and organizations are affirming their ...

About 50 years after Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World in 1492, the population of the Taíno, natives of the Caribbean who once numbered hundreds of thousands, had dropped to fewer than 500 ...

Taíno culture takes the spotlight in the 21st annual Children’s Festival at the National Museum of the American Indian’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York, Saturday and Sunday, May 18–19, 11 a.m.

Lawrence Waldron asserts that rumors of Taíno extinction are greatly exaggerated and definitely headed for an extinction of their own. Lawrence Waldron [Versión de este artículo en español disponible ...

Long before colonialism brought slavery to the Caribbean, the native islanders saw hurricanes and storms as part of the ...

A new DNA study explores where the extinct Taino came from and where they went. Re: Schroeder's quote: “I feel that ancient DNA can help us better understand the impact of European colonization and ...

In his latest novel, Mahmoud Maher narrates the story of Christopher Columbus’s “discovering” of the Americas by using the ...