Relegated to a footnote of history for 500 years, the Taíno came roaring back as front-page news in 2003, when Juan C. Martínez Cruzado, a biologist at the University of Puerto Rico, announced ...

Christopher Columbus gives hawks’ bells to the Taino people, the first Native Americans he encountered in 1492, in this hand-colored copperplate engraving by Sasso from Giulio Ferrario’s ...