ntonio Miguel was a Kuna sailor from Kuna Yala, the San Blas archipelago off Panama, who came onshore one day at Brooklyn’s Erie Basin with a fellow Kuna sailor. They walked to a house on Degraw Street where the heard another Native family lived—Rappahannocks from Virginia—and where they hoped to find some hospitality while in port. Miguel fell in love with a daughter there and ended up staying for good, joining a small number of other Kunas at the time. The Kuna/Rappahannock Miguel sisters went on to play prominent roles among Native artists in the city.