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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — Hundreds of people in Humboldt Park have a unique chance to connect with history and culture. The National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture is hosting a tribal council from ...

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 ...

Puerto Rico has been home to many cultures and faiths over its long history — with a rich quilt of religious practice and spirituality coming from Taino, Spanish and African cultures (and more) that ...

"A lot of people think, 'oh Puerto Ricans, they’re loud.' You know, we are. We’re prideful. We’re prideful, very prideful.” Video shows Puerto Rican food, barbecue, and an in-depth look at life in ...

When Puerto Rico became a colony of the US in 1898, much of its population was living in poverty. The US government and Puerto Rico's appointed government instituted an economic development strategy ...

Frankie Triguero was on the cusp of walking away. The Puerto Rican-raised New Yorker spent decades in the restaurant industry, working as a dishwasher, busser, server and captain in executive dining ...

Smithsonian magazine reports that 61% of all Puerto Ricans have trace Indigenous Taíno DNA, but historians in the Puerto Rican government claim Indigenous Taíno people have been conquered and wiped ...