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Taíno Perseverance Subject of Upcoming New York City Exhibition at National Museum of the American Indian

The Indigenous peoples of the Spanish-speaking Caribbean are not extinct and they never were. “Todavía estamos aquí (we are still here)”: this is the powerful message of the modern Taíno movement and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Renaissance of a Native Caribbean People: Taíno Ethnogenesis

On a wet September evening in the financial capital of the world and belly of modernity’s beast, a few hundred people gathered within the grand halls of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House, home ...
The Art Newspaper

Petition calls on Christie’s to return sacred Taino artefacts to Indigenous lands

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 ...
Archaeology

Isla de Mona’s Treasure Trove of Taino Artwork

LEICESTER, ENGLAND—Thousands of Taino drawings and paintings have been discovered on the remote, uninhabited Caribbean island of Mona, according to a report in The St. Kitts & Nevis Observer.
Smithsonian Magazine

Bringing Taíno Peoples Back Into History

Members of Puerto Rico's Concilio Taíno Guatu-Ma-cu a Boriken presented a dance ceremony to invite the public to recover the collective spirituality of their Native ancestors. Photo by Teresita ...