The first indigenous people encountered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 are not always widely recognized. Patricia Chali’naru Dones, a Newton resident, works to preserve the culture of Puerto Rico’s ...

Looks don’t mean proof. A dive into their lineage, which revealed many mestizo ancestors, offered some evidence. But the real ...

The Taíno, indigenous people of the Caribbean, were the primary inhabitants of what is now Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and The Bahamas. Their cultural and historical ...

The goal is show the story of a people whom traditional scholarship once labeled as “extinct.” Now, the Yale Peabody Museum’s newest temporary gallery to run from Dec. 13 through June 21, 2026, will ...

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 ...

Zemí Cohoba Stand (974–1020 CE), wood and shell (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979) The Taíno ...

Miguel Sagué Jr. was born in Cuba, and grew up knowing his ancestors on his father’s side included the Taíno, the indigenous people of the Caribbean. He even had relatives in El Caney, an indigenous ...

Ricky and Emil Collado turned a teenager’s frustration with golf’s lack of Latino representation into Taíno Golf, a thriving apparel brand that celebrates indigenous Caribbean culture. Now, as both ...

ST. THOMAS — A new exhibit at the Virgin Islands Children’s Museum is exploring the history and culture of the indigenous Taino people in the territory. The exhibit was developed in partnership with ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A band from North Philadelphia is on a mission to perform and teach music inspired by the Taíno, the indigenous people of the Caribbean. The Taíno dates back more than 500 years ...

The Lucayan did not know it was Oct. 12, 1492. They did not know that their island, in what would become the Bahamas, had been spotted by Spanish explorers led by a Genoese man named Christopher ...