Connecticut lawmakers want to acknowledge the Indigenous heritage of Caribbean islands like Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica and ...
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 ...
This wooden seat known as a duho was sculpted by a Taino artisan ... the chief or an important visitor could sit in a duho. Christopher Columbus was given this honour when he arrived in the ...
The Taíno were the first people Christopher Columbus encountered when he sailed ... You look at Puerto Rico; many words are Indian names. The words we used mixed in with Spanish perfectly.” ...