Duhos were used to communicate with the spirit world. A Taino chief would sit in his duho and then snort psychedelic snuff made from the seeds of the cohoba tree. They would then ask the spirits ...

This is a seat for a leader, for the chief of a village or a region. Taino leaders were both male and female, and the duho embodied their social, political and religious power, and it was crucial ...

Feliciano turned to elders in the community like Roberto Múkaro Borerro, a kasike, or chief, of the Guainía Taíno Tribe and Miguel Sague, a behike, or spiritual leader, in Taíno culture.

It’s been 514 years since the Taíno people, one of the major indigenous groups in the pre-Columbian Caribbean, first rebelled against the Spanish Conquistadors. By that time, the Spanish had ...