I was heartened when I read in the Jamaica Observer of Tuesday, November 10, 2020 the decision of the Government of Jamaica to retrieve postcolonial Taino wooden sculptures based at the British Museum ...

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 ...

The world’s strongest storm of the year has torn through Jamaica with 185mph winds and flash flooding, causing widespread ...

A six-day exhibition of stone artifacts by the Taino people, opened yesterday at the Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston. ‘Treasures of the Ancestral Spirits’ will showcase 35 pieces from the private ...

Long before colonialism brought slavery to the Caribbean, the native islanders saw hurricanes and storms as part of the normal cycle of life. The Taino of the Greater Antilles and the Kalinago, or ...

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 ...

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 ...

The quiet, historical towns of Treasure Beach and Black River in the southwest of the country could not feel further from the party scene in Montego Bay. As soon as you land in Jamaica, be it in ...

Veniece Bolton and her mother, Tamika Edwards, still remember the chill of their first November in Queens. "That was the first culture shock we had," Bolton said. "My sister got frostbite, and she's ...