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...

Smithsonian Forums on the Living Indigenous Legacies of the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico

Rick Kearns
March 29, 2013
The Taino presence in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico can be found in the people and the cultures according to scholars conducting research in both places...

Native American Heritage Month: 'That Was It (The Missing Taino),' a Poem by Rick Kearns

Rick Kearns
November 28, 2012
It is not easy for me to say I am a stranger in this white world but I am. I awoke one day rainbow Boricua white boy floating in a suburb feeling the need to explode...

NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH: Celebrate Today With the Jatibonicu Taíno Tribal Nation

ICTMN Staff
November 01, 2012
Today, November 1, is the first day of Native American Heritage Month, and ICTMN is highlighting events celebrating the month every day in November...

Photos From Gathering of Nations: Miss Indian World Jessa Rae Growing Thunder

ICTMN Staff
April 30, 2012

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No Indian ID Law Being Proposed in the Dominican Republic

Rick Kearns
December 04, 2011
Dominicans of Taino heritage will no longer be able to indicate their ethnicity on their national ID card if a new electoral law goes into effect...

2011 Indigenous Day of Remembrance

ICTMN Staff
November 19, 2011
On October 9, the fourth Indigenous Day of Remembrance was celebrated by many...

Hurricane: From the Goddess Guabancex to Fierce Irene

ICTMN Staff
August 26, 2011
At this moment, Hurricane Irene makes her way up the eastern seaboard of the United States, causing havoc on lands that were once home to the indigenous peoples of Turtle Island...

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