British auction house Christie's is placing dozens of Taino artifacts up for bids in Paris on Wednesday. But in a growing campaign online, many who identify with the indigenous people are requesting ...

The history of the Taínos, the Indigenous peoples of the northern Caribbean islands, and how their descendants are reaffirming their culture and identity today is the focus of a new Smithsonian ...

This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, Indian Country Today, and High Country News. In 2017, Hurricane Maria hit the ...

For as long as historians have posited that the Caribbean’s indigenous Taíno population was wiped out within 50 to 100 years of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the New World, individuals have ...

THE Caribbean imagined in Olive Senior’s new novel, Paradise Once (Akashic, $19.65), is both magical and unsettling—suffused with auguries, omens, ancestral gods, sacred rituals, and a profound sense ...

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 ...

A thousand-year-old tooth has provided the first clear genetic evidence that the Taíno -- the indigenous people whom Columbus first encountered on arriving in the New World -- still have living ...

Feb. 21 (UPI) --The discovery and analysis of an ancient tooth has offered scientists new insights into the genetic makeup of the Taíno people, one of the largest indigenous groups occupying the ...