Connecticut lawmakers want to acknowledge the Indigenous heritage of Caribbean islands like Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica and ...

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 ...

The term Taino is generally used to describe the dominant group of people that inhabited the larger Caribbean islands: Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico - and Hispaniola, now divided between Haiti and ...

That project was initiated by artist and educator Raphael Montañez Ortiz and a coalition of Puerto Rican parents, educators, artists, and activists at the institution’s outset over 50 years ago.

Dining in Puerto Rico reflects the island's mixture of Caribbean, Latin, North American and indigenous Taíno influences. No matter where you dine, make sure you get a taste of some of Puerto Rico ...

By that time, the Spanish had spent nearly 20 years enslaving the populations of Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and more. The Taíno were the first people Christopher Columbus encountered when he ...