"It's not our people's Independence Day" These are the words we heard from a spiritual leader and elder a long time ago on a reservation....

"The Natives Restless Again???" Do all minorities rush out to protest or incite race riots every time they are called for? No, not all of...

The People of First Contact The Taino are the tribe of first contact and the ones who "discovered" Columbus wandering lost in the ocean...

Arawak was the dominant indigenous language of many tribes in the Caribbean and the mainland from Bimini (Florida) to Sabanna (Georgia)...

The holidays and traditions we participate in define the very fabric and identity of our family. They affect us spiritually, culturally...

I have often told people that we, the Taino people, welcomed Columbus to our shores with open arms. I was repeating what I was taught....

Wannabe. Fraud. Elizabeth Warren. Fake Indian? These were the whispers that echoed against me by people hiding behind a computer screen...