Clashing cultures coalesce in 'Ayiti-Quisqueya: Nexus of the TaÃno'
Haiti and the Dominican Republic have a contentious history. Once the home of the native TaÃno people, the island of Hispaniola has " since the onset of Spanish and French colonizers in the late 15th century " been cleaved in two. The previously unified island was subject to a period of bipolar colonization which lasted...