Anacaona (Golden Flower) or better AnaKaona was the queen or Kacike of Xaragua land, Kiskeya Island (Hispaniola), sister of King Behekio and the wife of Kaonabo, King of Maguana land. She was an inusually beautiful and inteligent woman between Taino people, and exquisite poetise and Areyto (songs and dances) composer. She was the organizer of resistance to the colonial power, and the symbol of liberty for her people.
In the year 1504 she was arrested after the massacre and burning alive of 80 principal taino chiefs. Vexated and humilliated she was hanged in the public place of Santo Domingo some days after by order of fanatic spanish governor Frey Nicolas De Ovando, against the intentions of Queen Isabel La Catolica, who had ordered to preserve her life.
THE BOOK
"This novel tells us about events happened between 1492 and 1504, when all greatest kings or Kacikes of Quisqueya (Kiskeya), Haiti, Babeque or La Española, had been murdered.
All its content is based on official doccuments and writtings of many authors.
So, the narration of horror scenes and undiscriminated slaughter of the natives are based in testimonies of so well reputed historians and priests like Fray Anton De Montesinos And Fray Bartolome De La Casas."
"The novel depict the whole splendor and crude reallity of the first ten years of colonization and evangelization of the new world."
From the novel front cover in-lap.
Dr. G.
In the year 1504 she was arrested after the massacre and burning alive of 80 principal taino chiefs. Vexated and humilliated she was hanged in the public place of Santo Domingo some days after by order of fanatic spanish governor Frey Nicolas De Ovando, against the intentions of Queen Isabel La Catolica, who had ordered to preserve her life.
THE BOOK
"This novel tells us about events happened between 1492 and 1504, when all greatest kings or Kacikes of Quisqueya (Kiskeya), Haiti, Babeque or La Española, had been murdered.All its content is based on official doccuments and writtings of many authors.
So, the narration of horror scenes and undiscriminated slaughter of the natives are based in testimonies of so well reputed historians and priests like Fray Anton De Montesinos And Fray Bartolome De La Casas."
"The novel depict the whole splendor and crude reallity of the first ten years of colonization and evangelization of the new world."
From the novel front cover in-lap.
Dr. G.
