Cuevas’ business, Taíno Trinkets, specializes in Native American jewelry, emphasizing Taíno culture and using materials sourced from Borinken. He represents a growing number of Puerto Ricans ...

Just months later, however, the United States invaded the island during the 1898 Spanish-American ... Puerto Rico’s autonomy. In 1946, President Harry S. Truman installed the territory’s first ...

Hundreds of thousands of native Puerto Ricans ... with the fact that people born in Puerto Rico—which the United States occupied after the Spanish-American War of 1898—have U.S. citizenship ...

Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe at the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C. Alexandra Strong, who has Taíno heritage from Puerto Rico, leads the Mitsitam kitchen. Courtesy of ...

Blood quantum is a way to trace the amount of Native American blood an individual ... "I've always preferred to do events in the Puerto Rican community because when I go into Dominican spaces ...

Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share Jacob Rios, a Humboldt Park native, used to attend ... Roberto Clemente jerseys, a Puerto Rican MLB player and the first Latin-American to be inducted into the Baseball ...

The archaeologist Reniel Rodríguez Ramos examines a pictograph in a cave in Puerto Rico. Some of the drawings ... Spanish colonisers contended that the Native population first settled there.

Patricia Chali’naru Dones, a Newton resident, works to preserve the culture of Puerto Rico’s native population called the Taíno. Many people are unaware that common English words come from ...

3 Sisters Speakeasy owner Felix Ortiz is expecting more than 300 people to come to his downtown Kissimmee restaurant Thursday to celebrate a Thanksgiving of mixed cultures: a U.S. traditional meal ...

The incentive program, which is overseen by Puerto Rico's Department of Economic Development and Commerce (DEDC), isn't available to native residents ... rich mainland Americans to move to ...