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.

In the 2010 census, for example, 19,839 Puerto Ricans checked the identity box marked “American Indian or Alaskan Native,” an increase of almost 49 percent over the 2000 count, when 13,336 ...

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.

Another way we assert our identity is by attacking the census records. For a long time, there was no Indian option for people from Latin America—you were either Hispanic, white, black, or a mixture.

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. Maggie ...

Although it’s commonly believed that the indigenous Taíno were extirpated after Spanish conquest in 1511, their bloodlines, identity and customs were never completely extinguished.

This, coupled with the Indigenous Peoples' right to self-determination as allowed by the Indian Self Determination and Education Act, has seen the number of self-proclaimed Taíno's rise over the ...

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 ...

New Jersey was first inhabited by several Native American tribes about 10,000 years ago. ... Cliff Matias, who organized the event, is a member of the Kichwa Taino (Caribbean) tribe.