Written beautifully by Luna Divina, this article highlights the creative power of Atabey and how the earliest Taínos revered her. Today Atabey embraces that those living on the islands and throughout the diaspora. “Atabey is not just myth. She is continuity, survival, and the living heartbeat of Borikén.” – Luna Divina Read the article on […]
Written by Luna Divina on the Substack, Daughter of the Diaspora.
The United Confederation of Taíno People (UCTP) is an indigenous representative institution established in 1998 to promote the self-determination and protection of the human rights, culture, traditions, and sacred lands of Taíno and other Caribbean Indigenous Peoples. The UCTP serves as a forum for educational advocacy (including human rights and cultural education) and policy development […]
In this episode, Roberto looks at what we know about the Taíno language, the limitations that exist in our knowledge, and its impact on how we speak today.
This is an article by Brett Wilkins published on November 12, 2025, highlighting the continued protests in Puerto Rico against military intervention and action against fishing vessels.
In this episode, Roberto looks at the information available about the evolution of the Indigenous peoples who first populated Puerto Rico, based on the most recent evidence, as well as their contribution to Taíno culture and, eventually, to our Puerto Rican identity.
Podcast by Roberto Gil Cancel Comas focused on the history of Puerto Rico. Audio can be listened to in both Spanish and English.
We possess rather little detailed information on the lives of the first inhabitants of Puerto Rico—the so-called “Archaic” or “Pre-Arawak” people—despite more than a century of archeological research.
During the past two decades, many of the traditional conceptions about the configuration of the cultural landscape of precolonial Puerto Rico have been critically addressed from both political and disciplinary perspectives. Colonialist undercurrents embedded in the traditional models used to structure the indigenous history of the island have come into question and some of the […]
