Who Were the Taínos? Original People of Dominican Republic

Few times a museum manages to disarm you in silence. It is done by objects. The way they look at you, without eyes, without life, but with centuries of memory above. It happened to me in the Casa del Cordón, in the heart of Santo Domingo , where an extraordinary collection of taino pieces is displayed. Small fragments of mud and stone tell the story of a village that almost nobody talks about, but that is still there, under the layers of the mod…