British and Puerto Rican archaeologists are now rediscovering the spiritual heart of that culture – the world’s largest concentration of Taino art, located on a tiny and remote uninhabited ...

From the time of Taino Indian cave drawings, art has been ingrained into the island of Puerto Rico. The vast collection at the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico offers a wonderful overview of the ...

This, coupled with the Indigenous Peoples' right to self-determination as allowed by the Indian Self Determination and Education Act, has seen the number of self-proclaimed Taíno's rise over the ...

Historians and anthropologists contend the Taino Indians of Puerto Rico are extinct, but artist Melanio Gonzalez of Meriden says he is living proof that they’re wrong.“I am a Taino, I am here ...

Taíno protestors gathered yesterday, November 8, at the entrance of Christie’s Auction House and the French Embassy in Manhattan to oppose an upcoming auction of sacred artifacts on November 10 ...

The Indigenous peoples of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean are not extinct and they never were. “Todavía estamos aquí (we are still here)”: this is the powerful message of the modern Taíno movement and ...

The Taino people were declared extinct in 1565, but a DNA study last year found that 61% of all Puerto Ricans and roughly a third of Cubans and Dominicans have Native American DNA.

Although it’s commonly believed that the indigenous Taíno were extirpated after Spanish conquest in 1511, their bloodlines, identity and customs were never completely extinguished.

A city transportation boss acted like a slavemaster to a Taino Indian underling — even hanging a pair of shackles in the man’s office to make sure he knew his role, a new lawsuit alleges. “I ...

History: On an island where development tends to trump conservation, traces of the indigenous Taino people are vanishing. The most scholars can hope for is to prevent their wholesale destruction.

Cliff Matias, who organized the event, is a member of the Kichwa Taino (Caribbean) tribe. “This event is the biggest in New Jersey and was founded 29 years ago. I’m proud to be a part of ...