The Massachusetts State Senate is the first state senate in the United States to acknowledge the culture and heritage of the descendents of the Taíno indigenous people. "Massachusetts is saying that ...

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 ...

HAVERHILL — Patricia Chali’naru Dones will discuss the history of the Taino people, the indigenous culture of the Caribbean islands including Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic during a ...

When Ricky Collado walked the halls of the PGA Show with his teenage son Emil, he didn’t expect a question that would change their lives. “Emil was taken back with how many companies were at the show, ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOSTON — The Massachusetts House of Representatives honored the Higuayagua Taino Luku Kairi Tribal Nation with a formal resolution Wednesday. The Taino people are the indigenous forebears of people ...

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 ...

A thousand-year-old tooth has provided genetic evidence that the so-called “Taíno”, the first indigenous Americans to feel the full impact of European colonisation after Columbus arrived in the New ...

Many people get away to Puerto Rico during the winter, but few know it was a home of the Taino people before Columbus arrived in the Americas, and that Taino culture is alive and well there.

A petition urging the artifacts to be repatriated to the Dominican Republic garnered over 41,000 signatures. Sanakori Ramos, the behique or medicine man for the AraYeke Yukayek tribe led a small group ...