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Haitian man shares his Ancestry DNA Results

Haitian man shares his Ancestry DNA Results

World Map Of Haiti –Historia con Mapas The Taíno people were the indigenous people of the Caribbean and Florida. At the time of European contact in the late 15th century, they were the principal inhabitants of most of Cuba, Trinidad , Jamaica, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico. In the Greater Antilles, the […]

Haiti / Ayiti 1804 Tattoos

Haiti / Ayiti 1804 Tattoos

The only slave uprising in history to end with the foundation of a new country—went on to inspire countless other revolts throughout the United States and the Caribbean. English translation from Haitian Creole :  “What doesn’t kill you strengthens you” A bloody, thirteen-year revolution ensued, a complex web of wars among and between slaves, whites, […]

Movie: Cristo Rey

Movie: Cristo Rey

With English subtitles. Geographic location West Indies/Caribbean. Hispaniola is the site of the first European settlement in the Americas by Christopher Columbus on his voyages in 1492 and 1493. Based on a true story, this is an official selection of the Toronto International film festival. In a shantytown of Santo Domingo, Haitians and Dominicans struggle amidst a […]

Recommended Book To Read: From Columbus to Castro The History of the Caribbean

Recommended Book To Read: From Columbus to Castro The History of the Caribbean

Unknown, Forgotten or Accidentally left out of your history books by mistake.  This book is about 30 million people scattered across an arc of islands — Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua, Martinique, Trinidad, among others-separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, but joined together, nevertheless, by a common heritage. For whether French, English, Dutch, […]

Model: Belouka Almonacy

Model: Belouka Almonacy

Nationality: Unknown Ethnicity: Haitian, African descent. She is 5’11 ft tall. Stunning in black and white Haiti is a Caribbean country that shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic to its east. Though it’s still recovering from a 2010 earthquake, many of Haiti’s landmarks dating to the early 19th century remain intact. These […]

Taina Warrior Chief of Xaragua: Anacaona from Hispaniola/Haiti

Taina Warrior Chief of Xaragua: Anacaona from Hispaniola/Haiti

Anacaona was born in Yaguana (today the town of Léogane, Haiti) in 1474. During Christopher Columbus‘s visit to the chiefdom of Xaragua in what is now southwest Haiti in late 1496, where Anacaona and her brother Bohechío appeared as equal negotiators. She fought the Spaniards who was trying to colonize Hispaniola at the time. Anacaona […]