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Once upon a time, the Taino people inhabited much of the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico, present-day Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica and other islands. Then Christopher Columbus arrived in ...

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The Smithsonian will host a symposium on the survival of Taíno language, identity and material culture in contemporary Caribbean consciousness Wednesday, April 13, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Room 4018 ...

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 ...

In a sweltering coastal settlement, Alejandro Hartmann pulled out a spiral notebook and jotted notes as a local peasant described his family’s ties to a long forgotten indigenous group that is ...

José Barreiro is scholar emeritus on History and Culture, National Museum of the American Indian. He led the documentation of the oral histories and traditions of eastern Cuba´s Native communities and ...

SAN ANTONIO — In fewer than 100 years after the arrival of Columbus, the Taíno people of the Greater Antilles — Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Hispaniola — were wiped out, the victims of disease and ...

The Smithsonian Latino Center will host a symposium on the survival of Taíno language, identity and material culture in contemporary Caribbean consciousness Friday, Aug. 26, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in ...