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 ...

How old are they?” Hartmann fired off a dozen more questions as part of his effort to complete the first census of the descendants of the Taino Indians, an indigenous group that once thrived in ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the second and final of a two-part series article on the indigenous people of the Virgin Islands. At the end of the ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The 65th also known as the “Borinqueneers,” were nicknamed for the Taino Indians who were the native inhabitants of Puerto Rico, or Borinquen. The unit is an all Hispanic group made of mostly ...