By Sasha Alex Lessin, Ph.D. (Anthropology, UCLA) Puerto Rico’s story stretches from Indigenous seafarers who reached the islands thousands of years ago through Taíno society, Spanish conquest, African slavery, revolution, abolition, U.S. conquest, American citizenship without full federal representation, industrialization, debt, hurricanes, mass migration—and today’s struggle over power, water, energy, and political status. DOMINATORS HELD POWER, BUT THE PUERTO RICAN INDIANS …






