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What Became of the Taíno?
The Indians who greeted Columbus were believed to have died out. But a search for their descendants yielded surprising results.
by
Robert M. Poole
via
Smithsonian
on
October 1, 2011
Bittersweet Harvest
The long and brutal journey of the yam.
by
Rosa Colón
via
The Nib
on
June 27, 2022
On Language and Colony
A linguistic trajectory of Puerto Rico's identity as the world’s oldest colony.
by
Bianca P. Napoleoni Gregory
via
Library of Congress
on
September 21, 2020
Indians, Slaves, and Mass Murder: The Hidden History
Two historians shed light on the atrocities of Native American enslavement and genocide.
by
Peter Nabokov
via
New York Review of Books
on
November 24, 2016
The Lost Mariner
The self-confidence that kept Columbus going was his undoing.
by
Elizabeth Kolbert
via
The New Yorker
on
October 6, 2002
partner
Translating Corn
To most of the world, “corn” is “maize,” a word that comes from the Taíno mahizwas. Not for British colonists in North America, though.
by
Matthew Wills
,
Betty Fussell
via
JSTOR Daily
on
November 22, 2023
The Deep and Twisted Roots of the American Yam
The American yam is not the food it says it is. How that came to be is a story of robbery, reinvention, and identity.
by
Lex Pryor
via
The Ringer
on
November 24, 2021
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Stereotypes About Haiti Erase the Long History of U.S.-Haiti Ties
After the assassination of the Haitian president, the U.S. should avoid old patterns of interference.
by
Robert Taber
via
Made by History
on
July 8, 2021
The Shortages May Be Worse Than the Disease
Over the centuries, societies have shown a long history of making the effects of epidemics worse and furthering their own destruction.
by
Elise A. Mitchell
via
The Atlantic
on
March 11, 2020
Shaman's Revenge?
The birth, death and afterlife of our romance with tobacco.
by
Mike Jay
via
mikejay.net
on
January 1, 2019
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