Puerto Rico's Dominican immigrant community is on edge following a series of immigration raids, which started in January.

[DAVID YETMAN] Puerto ... Taino Indians. They were here for thousands of years, and we know they came from South America because they had red clay in their pots, not native to the island of Puerto ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A comic calling Puerto ... secretary threatens to pull funding from NY over its Native American mascot ban González, who beat Pierluisi in their party’s ...

Photo Credit: Discover Puerto Rico Puerto Rico's Parque de las Ciencias ... a museum highlighting the island's native Taino population; and the T-Rex House, which holds an interactive dinosaur ...

Division St.. The event also included two performances by Concilio Taíno (Taíno Council) Guatu-Ma-cu A Borikén, a native dance group from Puerto Rico. They performed an Areyto, a ceremonial ...

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 ...