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 ...

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 ...

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.

Jorge Estevez, a Taíno descendent working at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York, assisted the project team. "I wish my grandmother were alive today so that I could confirm to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...