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Connecticut state lawmakers passed a House resolution this week recognizing the heritage of the Caribbean’s Indigenous community and its impact on Connecticut.  HR 10, “Resolution Recognizing the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A coffee roasting machine is backed by scenes of Puerto Rico in Rich Port Coffee’s roastery located in the Selden Market in downtown Norfolk, Va. on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Rich Port Coffee grew ...
[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 ...
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 ...
This technical exception allowed Crowley Maritime's recently purchased American Energy, an LNG carrier built in France in 1994, to finally start supplying LNG to Puerto Rico. This technicality ...
Further in her speech, she emotionally shared that she was a “proud daughter” of Puerto Rico, which is a U.S. island territory. She further noted that “we are Americans” and “this is our ...