The unofficial number is undoubtedly higher. “Very few Indians were left after 50 years,” said Ricardo Alegría, a Puerto Rican historian and anthropologist I interviewed before his death this ...

This is how the myth of Taíno extinction was born. The Taíno were declared extinct shortly after 1565 when a census shows just 200 Indians living on Hispaniola, now the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

From then, I had only ever heard that we were representing the Carib Indians, so I lived 48 years of my life with this belief. Confirming that I was Taino opened up a whole new world, so I started ...

Kacike Roberto Mukaro Agüeybana Borrero, president of the United Confederation of Taino Peoples and a member ... "In that category, a person could have been Indian, Indian mixed with [another ...

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 ...

When I was a child in San Juan schools, a lot of our story was glossed over: The islands were “discovered” by Christopher Columbus, the Taíno Indians were decimated, the U.S. “happened ...

“So what we are trying to do is immerse people into the Indigenous side of the Puerto Rican, the Taíno Indians who were part of the Puerto Rican culture,” Billy Ocasio, Executive Director of ...

In 1516, Spanish explorers experienced Taino Indian barbacoa—seafood and meats smoke-roasted on a wooden platform that gave us the word “barbecue.” The Caribbean remains a hotbed of barbecue ...

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 ...