For years, anthropologists widely believed this island’s once-powerful Taino Indians were exterminated shortly after Christopher Columbus sailed into a pristine bay and walked the steep, thickly ...

In the 2010 census, for example, 19,839 Puerto Ricans checked the identity box marked “American Indian or Alaskan Native,” an increase of almost 49 percent over the 2000 count, when 13,336 ...

Historians and anthropologists contend the Taino Indians of Puerto Rico are extinct, but artist Melanio Gonzalez of Meriden says he is living proof that they’re wrong.“I am a Taino, I am here ...

They were also the first victims of his conquest.Less than 100 years after the discovery of America, the Taino Indians seemingly disappeared, decimated by disease and slavery.But these early ...

Because of its otherworldly brilliance, the 16th century Taino Indians of Cuba called it turey, their word for the most luminous part of the sky. They adored its sweet smell, its reddish hue, its ...

A city transportation boss acted like a slavemaster to a Taino Indian underling — even hanging a pair of shackles in the man’s office to make sure he knew his role, a new lawsuit alleges.

It was in the Everglades that the Miccosukee and Seminole tribes escaped persecution and eradication during the Seminole Wars ...

ARECIBO, Puerto Rico • "Watch out for the hole," the Cave Man calls. • We've just climbed a limestone outcropping on Puerto Rico's northern shore, where we've come to explore hidden caverns and ...

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands — Work crews found the remains of an ancient Taino Indian village while digging a foundation for a new TV tower in the Virgin Islands, officials said Thursday.

“Indians have appeared in the record ever since,” said Hartmann. Indigenous people established the city of Jiguaní in 1701 and formed the all-native Hatuey Regiment in the Cuban war against ...