The First Indigenous Tribe Enslaved By Colonization Should Not Be The Last One Recognized Or Respected. 🏺 Rethinking Florida’s Archaeological and Genetic Record: Taíno Continuity, Not Extinction Too many interpretations of Florida’s pre-Columbian history still echo the old institutional bias that once declared the Taíno extinct — a claim disproven by modern genetics. The 2018 and 2020 ancient-DNA studies by Schroeder et al. and Nieves-Colón et al. proved that living Caribbean populations carry