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 ...

A photographer returns to his native ... Puerto Rico. I had grown increasingly worried that the island’s unique art forms and crafts, which draw on centuries of Caribbean, African, Spanish and ...

When the Spanish colonizers arrived on the island… they saw the Taino Indians, the group native to Puerto Rico, cooking on branches over fire. When asked about the technique, the natives ...

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 ...

By that time, the Spanish had spent nearly 20 years enslaving the populations of Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and more. The Taíno were the first people Christopher Columbus encountered when he ...