Tainos: a group of people who lived in Central and South America

 Lived in villages.  They were farmers.  They appreciated art.  Peaceful people.

 Spanish explorers come and meet the Tainos.  Christopher Columbus described them described them as, “Well formed, with handsome bodies and good faces… They should be good and intelligent servants…”  Many were removed from their homelands (displaced) to strange lands to serve the Spaniards in their plantations.

 Many African people were kidnapped and were forced to migrate by Europeans to the America’s to serve as slaves along with the indigenous people.  “One day, when all our people were gone out to their works as usual, and only I and my dear sister were left to mind the house, two men and a woman got over our walls, and in a moment seized us both, and, without giving us time to cry out, or make resistance, they stopped our mouths, and ran off with us into the nearest wood. “~ Olaudah Equiano

 Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? ~ Olaudah Equiano  What’s the story here? What elements of the artwork add to this story?

 Think of a time during your life when you were “displaced”  Draw a piece of artwork representative of that time. Incorporate some of the elements you saw in the examples shown previously.