DutchTrustBonaire.com

is the registered trade-name of a Netherlands Kingdom Foundation, incorporated in the Eighties, under the Statutory Name

Stichting West-Indische Compagnie

for the Promotion of Culture & Science of the Dutch Caribbean. The research and exploration of the PreHispanic roots of the 3 Dutch Caribbean

ABC Islands

(

Aruba

,

Bonaire

and

Curacao

) is our primary object. Through our non-profit TravelAssistance section

Conquistador Academic Travel

we provide links to the best Airlines and Hotels in the area, for safe and comfortable tours to

Caribbean

and

LatinAmerican

cultural destinations. Our (LongWeekend-)Tour from

Bonaire

to

Santa Marta

(with it's nearby

Sierra Nevada

) and

Cartagena

on the

Caribbean Coast

of

Colombia

, for example, is highly recommended. Aruba, ABC, ABC Islands, Antilles, Antilleans, Arikok, Arikok Rock Art, Archeology, Ethno-Archeology, Benta, Bonaire, Basalt, Basaltic, Batik, Body-wrap, Bryan, Alan, Bryan, Caribbean, Caribbean Heritage, Chairama, Columbian, Pre-Columbian, Conquistador, Conquistador Academic Travel, Conquistador Treasure Replicas, Curacao, Coca, Coca-leave, Cruxent, Jose Cruxent, Conch, Queen Conch, Dutch, Dutch Antilles, Dutch Caribbean, Dutch Caribbean History, Dutch Caribbean Corporate Law, Dutch Caribbean Fashion, Dutch Caribbean Treasures, Dutch Kingdom, Dutch Trust, Debrot, Raymundo Debrot, Ethno-Archeology, Ethno-History, Exotic Dutch Fashion, Encomienda, Encomienda Legislation, Epitaph, Elder Brothers, Fontein, Fontein Rock Art, Guano, Gruhn, Ruth Gruhn, Hispanic, pre-Hispanic, Holocaust, Hallucination, Hematite, Hato, Hato Caves, International Education, Jewelry, Pre-Columbian Jewelry, pre-Hispanic Jewelry, Kogi, Kogi Indian, Limestone, Monte Verde, Mastodon, Mangrove, Musical, Musical Bow, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Nostalgia, Nostalgia DVD, Onima, Onima Rock Art, Paraguana, Pleistocene, Pleistocene Glaciation, Petroglyph, Pueblito, Poporo, Queen Conch, Rock Art, Resin, Rooi Rincon, Santa Marta, Santa Marta (Colombia), Shaman, Shamanic Flight, Sarong, Spelonk, Spelonk Rock Art, Saltpan, Tropical, Tropical Holland Fashion, Taima-Taima, Tequendama, Tairona, Tayrona, Volcanic, Volcanic Rock, Volcaniclastic With the guidance of an Academic multilingual Dutch TourGuide, one follows the footsteps of the Conquistadors, but always within the

SafeHaven luxury

of five star hotel-resorts and the sheltered tours they provide. As a side-line, in co-operation with an unusually professional

Colombian Goldsmith

, we have been able to initiate a modest reproduction-line of

PreColombian GoldWork

. Our

Conquistador Treasure Replicas

are patiently handcrafted; every jewel is unique, but always meticulously true to the original Indian Works of Art as used thousands of years ago on the

Caribbean Coasts

of

LatinAmerica

and the ABC Islands.

Ethnological

knowledge about past LatinAmerican and (Dutch) Caribbean cultures is provided in our publications; results of our reviews of

EthnoArcheological

literature focused on

PreHistoric

artifacts from the Caribbean coasts of SouthAmerica. In the early Seventies, for example, Venezuelan archeologist Dr

Jose Cruxent

excavated

Mastodon

bones and human-made

biconvex

leaf-shaped

spear-points

, in

Taima-Taima

, close to the city of Coro (Venezuela). Canadian archeologists Dr

Ruth Gruhn

and Dr

Alan Bryan

, radiocarbon-dated these PreCeramic Indian weapons from TaimaTaima (only a few kilometers opposite the Island of Aruba) as being 13.000 years old. Not surprising therefore, that

Leyden University

archeologists during the past 50 years (e.g. Dr.

H.R. van Heekeren

, Dr.

Aad Versteeg

and Dr

Jay Haviser

) found ample evidence, on all 3 Dutch ABC Islands, of

Stone Age

immigrants who obviously migrated by sea (and via

LandBridges

emerged during late

Pleistocene

) from SouthAmerica to the Caribbean. Striking however, that, on both the Dutch Islands and within the SouthAmerican Continent,

PreCeramic

dead often had been buried in a specific posture: On their side, crouched, with flexed knees, while on their forehead a prominent mark was applied with a mineral-based red dye (such as the 9000-year old Indian remains found by Dr

Thomas van der Hammen

and Dr.

Gonzalo Correal Urrego

in the

Tequendama Rock Shelters

near Bogota, Colombia). European

SlaveTrade activities

, throughout the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries, prevented PreHispanic

Cultural Continuity

for the Dutch ABC Islands. In the Caribbean coastal regions of Colombia, within a 90-minute ScheduledAirline-distance from the Dutch Islands, one can still observe the authentic beliefs and practices of

Indian Cultures

rooted in their PreHispanic past.