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Around 87,000 people live on the Islands which ... historian Isaac Dookhan writes in A History of the Virgin Islands of the United States. Schools, emergency services and hospitals were all ...

(drums thump) (pensive music) I am here at the library at the University of the Virgin Islands. This was one of my first stops 12 years ago when I started my research on the Taino people. The US ...