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Sosua, Dominican Republic
Above: A girl celebrating International Women’s Day in Sosúa, Dominican Republic, in March 2018. Photo by Trust "Tru" Katsande on Unsplash. Left: A collector's edition Taino stamp from the Dominican Republic titled "Aspirador Nasal".

We seek to create an expansive archive of genealogical records for the Dominican Republic that identify the First Nation Peoples of the Caribbean in official documents.

Sosua, Dominican Republic
Above: A girl celebrating International Women’s Day in Sosúa, Dominican Republic, in March 2018. Photo by Trust "Tru" Katsande on Unsplash. Top: A collector's edition Taino stamp from the Dominican Republic titled "Aspirador Nasal".

Acknowledgements

We want to extend our heartfelt gratitude and sincere thanks to Gerald Alexander Lopez Castellano for his invaluable contribution, expertise, and support in creating this content.

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Indigenous Archives of the Dominican Republic

Please visit often as the archive is currently in its infancy. In time, it will grow and it will take the participation from the public to help us increase the number of documents in the Indigenous Archive Project for the Dominican Republic.

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Did you know?

The cassava (aka yuca) was a big crop for the Taino people. They used it to make bread and it is said that when the Spanish explorers saw that this flatbread didn’t mold or go stale, they took the cassava root with them around the continent.