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Deep Cuts 4: Columbus Day "Special"

We delve into the archaeology that surrounds Admiral Don Cristóbal Colón's voyaging to and around the Caribbean, but only briefly before taking a longer, less cringey look at the Taíno population of the fifteenth century he "discovered" and the metamorphosis of Taíno identity from contact with Europeans through today.

Caribbean Archaeology Program: Christopher Columbus (Florida Museum of Natural History)

The Journal of Christopher Columbus (during His First Voyage, 1492-93) (Google Books)

Top 5 Misconceptions About Columbus (Live Science)

The Lost Fort of Columbus (Smithsonian)

Christopher Columbus Santa Maria discovery: Archaeologists hail find as 'amazingly significant' (Independent)

Shipwreck is not Santa Maria, UNESCO experts say (UNESCO)

Why Haven't We Found Christopher Columbus's Ships? (National Geographic)

La Isabela: Columbus's First Colony in the Americas (ThoughtCo)

Dental Studies Give Clues About Christopher Columbus's Crew (Washington Post)

Africans Came with Columbus to New World (Live Science)

The Tainos: Rise & Decline of the People who Greeted Columbus (Google Books)

Arawak (Wikipedia)

Languages of the Pre-Columbian Antilles (Google Books)

Ancient DNA sheds light on what happened to the Taino, the native Caribbeans (Ars Technica)

Origins and genetic legacies of the Caribbean Taino (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Taíno: Indigenous Caribbeans (Black History 365)

En Bas Saline: Taíno Society (Florida Museum of Natural History)

Taíno Art (CUNY)

Las Castas – Spanish Racial Classifications (Native History Project)

Casta (Wikipedia)

This New Exhibition Looks at Taíno Legacy and History From 1492 and Beyond (Remezcla)

Taíno: Native Heritage and Identity in the Caribbean (Museum of the American Indian)

And don’t forget to follow @AmerIndianNYC to learn even more!

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As science communicators in anthropology and archaeology, we hosts of The Dirt acknowledge that we hold a position of considerable privilege and opportunity, and commit ourselves to continuous learning, unlearning and reflection. We recognize that our disciplines, as well as our own lives, are rooted in and propped up by settler colonialism, white supremacy, and dispossession.

We now reside on the stolen ancestral territory of the Shawnee and Haudenosaunee and on the lands of the Muscogee and Cherokee Nations, but over its lifetime, The Dirt has also been produced on the unceded traditional territory of the Piscataway Conoy and Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians, as well as that of the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, Patwin and Miwok peoples and all those dispossessed by Cession 296. We offer our show as a platform for Indigenous scholarship, history, and cultural expression, through citation and conversation, and we welcome the opportunity to host and compensate Indigenous scholars of archaeology and anthropology as interview guests.

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