A petition urging the artifacts to be repatriated to the Dominican Republic garnered over 41,000 signatures. Sanakori Ramos, the behique or medicine man for the AraYeke Yukayek tribe led a small group ...

If one wanted to go back further than the 250th celebration and ask: Who were the first Indigenous people to have contact ...

Lawrence Waldron asserts that rumors of Taíno extinction are greatly exaggerated and definitely headed for an extinction of their own. Lawrence Waldron [Versión de este artículo en español disponible ...

We’re forever trying to make sense of history, and especially our place in it. The Caribbean is fraught with especially painful questions around historical narrative that reflect a fundamental ...

British auction house Christie's is placing dozens of Taino artifacts up for bids in Paris on Wednesday. But in a growing campaign online, many who identify with the indigenous people are requesting ...

Although it’s commonly believed that the indigenous Taíno were extirpated after Spanish conquest in 1511, their bloodlines, identity and customs were never completely extinguished. A commonly repeated ...

On 10 November Christie’s is set to auction a trove of Taino and Pre-Columbian artefacts in Paris, but members of the Taino community hope to put a stop to the sale and have the works returned to the ...

This week we've been talking about high-status objects that belonged to leaders and thinkers around the world about seven hundred years ago. Objects that reflect the societies that produced them, in ...

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 ...