Tag: Taino Indians

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, […]