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.

The villagers did not call themselves Indian or Taíno, but they knew how Native traditions had shaped life in the community. Most had kept a long silence about their indigenous heritage for fear ...

And it turned out that the unmasked Native American sections of modern Puerto Rican genomes are pretty similar to both modern Arawakan Peoples and the ancient Taino woman.

Three Taíno Indian sisters pose during a family pig roast in eastern Cuba, where there’s a small but growing movement to explore the indigenous culture that Columbus encountered in 1492.

This practice was also applied to Taíno Indians. Then, after 1533, when Indian slaves were “granted” their freedom by the Spanish monarchy, any Spaniard who was reluctant to let their Taíno ...

Kacike Roberto Mukaro Agüeybana Borrero, president of the United Confederation of Taino Peoples and a member ... is a way to trace the amount of Native American blood an individual has.

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.

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 ...

Their mission? To teach Native American history and culture, and keep their millennia-old traditions alive. Cliff Matias, who organized the event, is a member of the Kichwa Taino (Caribbean ...