By the way.....historical errors.....we are Lakota.....never an enemy to the Apache.....I have great respect for Geronimo......as much as I do for Sitting Bull.....BUT let's keep this DR related.
Your profile photo is now actually of Red Cloud, a Sioux Chief of the Oglala Lakota.
Lakota were part of the Sioux tribe along with the Dakota and Nakota tribes.
Red Cloud born in Nebraska, but sent to South Dakota after the Treaty of Fort Laramie where he lived out his life and died on the Pine Ridge reservation.
He was most famous after the Fetterman Massacre or "Battle of a Hundred Slain" in the winter of 1866 in Wyoming.
The above is not DR related but I am interested in hearing from someone who is familiar with Taino Indian history. And if anyone can still speak the Taino language? Any good books or local historical sites with any remnant of Taino culture remaining inside DR? Anywhere museum here where can see pre-Colombian pottery?
I have read that since the Spanish came bringing no women they took Taino wives and thus was born Meztisos, (the term for mixed European / Indigenous Indian).
Since smallpox wiped out most Tainos (no N95 masks back then) I doubt there are any pure Tainos living anywhere today? That may be one positive about reservations, they do perpetuate bloodlines.