Indigenous peoples are inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of relating to people and the environment. They have retained social, cultural, economic and political characteristics that are distinct from those of the dominant societies in which they live. In Jamaica’s case, the first known inhabitants of the island were the Taino, a people descended from those who first crossed the Bering Strait into the Americas thousands of years ago.
The International Day of the World’s Indigenous People – The Legacies of the Taino