Today's object is a stool from the Caribbean, from what is now the Dominican Republic, and it too tells a rich story - in this case of the Taino people who lived in the Caribbean islands before ...

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 ...

The Europeans first used these people as labour on the plantations. Disease killed many of the Arawak and Taino people, and soon there were not enough indigenous people to meet the ever growing ...