Tag: Christopher Columbus

U.S. Parades, Protests Mark Columbus Day, Now Also Indigenous Peoples’ Day

NEW YORK — Christopher Columbus Day drew crowds on Monday with U.S. city parades marking the explorer’s voyage and Italian-American culture, as the focus increasingly turned to the heritage and plight of indigenous people subjugated by European settlers. At the White House, where President Joe Biden had declared October 11 as Indigenous Peoples’ Day, community […]

Taino Indians Are Alive and Well and Living In Puerto Rico … At Least Their Descendants … DNA Says

SAN JUAN — They were called the Taíno, and the Europeans who colonized their land took almost everything away from them. A half-century after Christopher Columbus set foot upon the New World, these decimated natives of the Caribbean – who once numbered somewhere in the hundreds of thousands – had declined to fewer than 500, […]