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 from Puerto ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — Hundreds of people in Humboldt Park have a unique chance to connect with history and culture. The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture is hosting a tribal council from ...

To focus on Puerto Rico's indigenous peoples and attractions, the Puerto Rico Tourism Co. unveiled La Ruta Taina (The Taino Route), which runs from Arecibo on the island's north coast to Ponce on the ...

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 ...

Roberto Borrero of The Voice of the Taino People has the latest on two indigenous Taino protesters in Puerto Rico occupaying the Caguana Indigenous Ceremonial Center in Utuado, Puerto Rico. Global ...

Smithsonian magazine reports that 61% of all Puerto Ricans have trace Indigenous Taíno DNA, but historians in the Puerto Rican government claim Indigenous Taíno people have been conquered and wiped ...

Hundreds of people participated in the 57th annual Puerto Rican Day Parade, paying homage to the first inhabitants of their island: the Taíno. Joya Ellis participates in the 57th annual Puerto Rican ...

NEW HAVEN -- "A Puerto Rican Expression of Three Cultures" is the theme of the organization FLECHAS, which celebrates the island's Spanish, Taíno and, specifically, its African heritage. FLECHAS is an ...

The Caribbean was one of the last parts of the Americas to be settled by humans, although scientists don’t agree on when the first settlers arrived or where they came from. Some argue that people ...

"An ethnohistoric and archaeological study of the transformations that occurred in Indian communities during the Spanish conquest of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico from 1492 to 1550"-- Provided by ...