Christopher Columbus reached the island that would become Puerto Rico, then home to the Taíno people, in 1493, ushering in more than four hundred years of Spanish rule. It became a critical ...

In the new year, the Spurlock Museum will host “Caribbean Indigenous Resistance/Resistencia indígena del Caribe ¡Taíno Vive!” ...

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 ...

Reggaeton artist Bad Bunny has stopped his European tour to return to Puerto Rico and protest. He praised the "bravery" of people on the island. Puerto Rico has been a US territory since 1898.

Story and photographs byMichael George In Puerto Rico, people speak of Alice Chéverez as an urban legend. “She is hard to get ahold of, and even harder to meet. Her studio is located at her ...

An admission fee of just $5 gains you entry to what has been described as the most important archeological site focusing on the Taíno people in the Caribbean. The Caguana Indigenous Ceremonial ...

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.

The Cueva del Indio is a natural cavern used by indigenous Taino people who left behind a series of paintings on the cave walls. The artwork is estimated to have been made sometime between 1200 ...