The first indigenous people encountered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 are not always widely recognized. Patricia Chali’naru Dones, a Newton resident, works to preserve the culture of Puerto Rico’s ...

SAN LORENZO, Puerto Rico _ In Puerto Rico's misty, bamboo-studded mountains, elementary school students are studying a nearly extinct language, beating on drums and growing native crops like cassava ...

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This story is published as part of the Global Indigenous Affairs Desk, an Indigenous-led collaboration between Grist, Indian Country Today, and High Country News. In 2017, Hurricane Maria hit the ...

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has partnered with Taino Warriors and actor/activist Michelle Rodriguez on a campaign to help the hurricane ravaged and economically impacted island of Puerto Rico ...

To focus on Puerto Rico's indigenous peoples and attractions, the Puerto Rico Tourism Co. unveiled La Ruta Taina (The Taino Route), which runs from Arecibo on the island's north coast to Ponce on the ...

Part 1. Competing historical narratives regarding Taíno extinction -- The stakes of being Taíno -- Historical discourses and debates about Puerto Rico's indigenous trajectory -- Part 2. The Puerto ...

Six months after Puerto Rico was pummeled by Hurricane Maria, the storm has not passed in the eyes of members of Rochester’s Borinquen Dance Theatre. “It’s still chaotic on the island,” said dancer ...

The Taíno, indigenous people of the Caribbean, were the primary inhabitants of what is now Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, and The Bahamas. Their cultural and historical ...