Centuries of intense migrations have deeply impacted the development of the creo-lised Papiamentu/o-speaking cultures of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. These three islands, together with the three windward islands of St. Maarten, St. Eustatius, or Statia, and Saba, nine hundred kilometres to the northeast, plus the Netherlands in Europe, another seven thousand kilometres to the northeast, form the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In 1845, the six islands were made into one administrative colonial entity governed from Curaçao and subordinated to the Netherlands. In 1954 the Netherlands Antilles obtained autonomous country status and as such became responsible for internal affairs as laid down in the Kingdom’s Charter. Cultural and heritage exchange remained a one-way street from The Hague, the seat of the Dutch government, to the Caribbean.That changed when on May 30, 1969 (Trinta di Mei) an enormous uprising took place in Curaçao with obvious anti-colonial and Black Power sentiments.