By that time, the Spanish had spent nearly 20 years enslaving the populations of Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and more. The Taíno were the first people Christopher Columbus encountered when he ...

Story and photographs byMichael George In Puerto Rico, people speak of Alice Chéverez as an urban legend. “She is hard to get ahold of, and even harder to meet. Her studio is located at her ...

Padilla said according to a DNA analysis her ancestry included African as well as indigenous Taino people. She took classes from a Bomba teacher in San Francisco and made trips to Puerto Rico.

An small admission fee gains you entry to what has been described as the most important archeological site focusing on the Taíno people in the Caribbean. The Caguana Indigenous Ceremonial Park is ...

The Cueva del Indio is a natural cavern used by indigenous Taino people who left behind a series of paintings on the cave walls. The artwork is estimated to have been made sometime between 1200 ...