The Caribbean Indigenous Legacies Project explores the culture, history, and legacy of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean islands. In particular, this project focuses on the Taíno, the inhabitants of Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas, who were the first Native American people to encounter, as well as to resist (often with the help of enslaved Africans), Spanish colonization after 1492. This initiative offers new perspectives on the Taíno and related neighboring ethnic groups prior to European contact using the Smithsonian’s first-rate (yet rarely studied or displayed) archeological collections, while it explores and contextualizes the growing attention to indigeneity currently emerging in the Caribbean, and in U.S. communities of Caribbean origin.
This project is a collaboration between the Smithsonian Latino Center, the National Museum of the American Indian, the National Museum of Natural History and an international, interdisciplinary network of scholars. An exhibition on the Taíno legacy is planned for 2014 in the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian. A public program series initiated in 2011 will continue through the exhibition opening, and plans for a traveling exhibition will be evaluated in the future.
Project Team
Collaborating Smithsonian Units
Ranald Woodaman (Principal Investigator)
Smithsonian Latino Center
Jose Barreiro
Jorge Estevez
Cynthia Vidaurri
National Museum of the American Indian
Jake Homiak National Museum of Natural History
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They tried to wipe us out! But we are seeds! We will never die! Thank you to all the information from all of you spreading truth about our culture I love it!!
I have seen into the past when I went to Borinken , wide awake and many other things I have never shared
I have always felt Taino, my family lives in the mountain regions of Boriken. I would like to see our race included in many of the legal forms. They have Native Americans, Samoan, Hawaiian etc but not Taino. We are here alive and well, although historian has tried to exterminate our existence.
Listening to the speakers took me back to 1978 when a Northern Cheyenne man chief of his tribe helped me find my true identity as a tribal Indigenous person and not the person that the mask of the ones who lied and tried to control tribes by stating that they were extinct! In the spring of 1989 was when I learned I am Taíno, Daca Taíno!" I have not looked back ever since that day regardless of the trials and tribulations I have faced with the racial discrimination even lateral discrimination. Daca Taíno!
how do i get involved.
Wow that new to me it's really a new science, what's that the art of stealing people's culture
Baba Baracutei!! Jorge Estevez !
Takahi ,I love these comments in the video, such samilar stories I can share and I am proud to be taino, boriquas from maunabo, boriken, hahom oma'bahari !!!!!!
Takahi ,I love these comments in the video, such samilar stories I can share and I am proud to be taino, boriquas from maunabo, boriken, hahom oma'bahari !!!!!!
I have been trying to reach out to any one that would help me i have been searching on ancestry.com and have found out a little bit if things but would like to know more and need help in doing so por favor adgudame ,,!any one i would appreciate it
I have been trying to reach out to any one that would help me i have been searching on ancestry.com and have found out a little bit if things but would like to know more and need help in doing so por favor adgudame ,,!any one i would appreciate it