In Martinique, Native American artwork is rediscovered on the Clément Foundation | EUROtoday

“Today’s exhibition provides tangible proof that our history is not a vestige of the past, but a living heritage”stated Anette Sanford, the chief of the Kalinago group on the island of Dominica, throughout her speech on the opening day of the exhibition “At the origins of the Caribbean. Taïnos and Kalinagos”, Saturday December 13, on the Clément Foundation, in Martinique.

Wearing a Native American adornment of Amazonian fowl feathers, the indigenous dignitary had traveled from her native island, neighboring Martinique, the place one of many final pre-Columbian communities within the Lesser Antilles stays, relegated since 1903 to an remoted reserve, populated by 3,000 souls. The 42-year-old chief, elected by her tribe in 2024, was one of many distinguished company on the grand opening of this exhibition which might be held till March 15, 2026. Without a doubt, this occasion might be a landmark in Martinique: the truth is, having disappeared three centuries in the past, firstly of the colonial period, the primary inhabitants of the island nonetheless left quite a few traces there, nonetheless seen at present.

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