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.

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.

Not even Baracoa and its remote, rugged hinterland was spared the government’s gauche promotion of a singular ‘New Man’ mindset. “We families knew we were Indian, but as children we were ...

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However, the exhibition “Taíno: Native Heritage and Identity in the Caribbean,” on view at the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in New York through November 12, 2019, asserts ...

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. Maggie ...

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.

Taíno: Native Heritage and Identity in the Caribbean is a collaboration of the National Museum of the American Indian and the Smithsonian Latino Center. More Exhibition Info external Taíno (Chican ...

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 ...

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 ...