A thousand-year-old tooth has provided the first clear genetic evidence that the Taíno -- the indigenous people whom Columbus first encountered on arriving in the New World -- still have living ...

EDGEWOOD, Fla. – A FedEx semi pulling double trailers crashed into a building early Saturday in Edgewood in Orange County, according to police. The Edgewood Police Department said the semi was heading ...

Archeologist and curator Stephanie Bailey explained that in her Puerto Rican family, her grandmother never identified as Taino. “My grandmother doesn’t look indigenous, but her mother does, ...

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 ...

Taino is an Indigeneity movement. It encompasses a broad range of people throughout the Greater Caribbean islands and their populations in the United States and Canada. As a movement, for some 50 ...

(This story was updated to accurately reflect the most current information.) The Massachusetts State Senate is the first state senate in the United States to acknowledge the culture and heritage of ...

Follow Maekiaphan as she reclaims her Taino heritage. Follow Maekiaphan, a Taino woman from the U.S. Virgin Islands, on her journey to reclaim her Taino heritage and to become the first woman Kasike ...

It’s been 514 years since the Taíno people, one of the major indigenous groups in the pre-Columbian Caribbean, first rebelled against the Spanish Conquistadors. By that time, the Spanish had spent ...

Members of Concilio Taíno Guatu-Ma-cu-A-Borikén present an areyto (communal song-dance) for the public in 2017 in Guayanilla, Puerto Rico. Watkins Watkins Members of Concilio Taíno ...

The Caribbean is a beautiful place, and that beauty fetches a high price as luxury developers try to claim dominion over a piece of paradise. But a long time ago, before fancy hotels and casinos ...

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 ...