Julianne Jennings

When the Last American Indian Dies

Anthropology has from the beginning been influenced and dominated by European males. They set the criteria of hierarchically ordered level descriptions, giving themselves the power to dictate the boundaries of group membership by defining race in terms of biology....

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May 08, 2013

José Barreiro Bridges Two Realities and Two Worlds With Taíno: A Novel

Michelle Tirado
May 05, 2013
The Taíno were the first to greet Christopher Columbus when he arrived in 1492 and were thus some of the earliest Indigenous Peoples to be decimated by colonization...

I Am Taíno: Exploring the Indigenous Roots Throughout the Caribbean

Michelle Tirado
April 04, 2013
Extinguished. Vanished. Wiped out...

Tropical Islands and Traditional Culture in Guna Yala, Panama

David Dudenhoefer
September 03, 2012
As the boat carried our group from a coastal airstrip in eastern Panama to the Yandup Island Lodge, in the autonomous territory of the Guna Indians, I admired the timeless beauty o...

That Sinking Feeling

David Dudenhoefer
September 01, 2012
For centuries, the Guna (a.k.a. Kuna) Indians have successfully defended their territory on Panama’s Caribbean coast...
Jose Barreiro

Consciousness of Taino: Explorations of Identity

In the Greater Antilles, Taino is in the mind. Taino is nation and movement, ancestry and identity. Taino, the term, is mentioned in the early chronicles of conquest, recorded to mean "the good people" or the "noble people."...

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August 23, 2011

Hurricane Sandy Swept Caribbean First, Causing at Least 70 Deaths

ICTMN Staff
November 04, 2012
Turtle Island’s indigenous were picking up the pieces from Hurricane Sandy and breathing a sigh of relief on November 3, grateful that despite fairly significant damage, no tribal ...

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