![]() ![]() Caonabo accepted the bracelets, only to find out too late that they were handcuffs. As legend has it (and this may be apocryphal) a man named Alonso de Hojeda captured him by offering him a bracelets of much-valued bronze. ![]() When a Taino man named Guacanagari pointed the finger at Caonabo - whose name’s “caona” is the same as the one in Ana caona‘s name - the colonialists began hunting him down. When Anacaona’s husband Caonabo was imprisoned for leading armed attacks against the colonialists (something for which he might have been framed 3 The offense in question was an attack on a fort at La Navidad. And as anyone who’s read this blog for any period of time knows: history is power. Its translation is, sadly, unknown., she was not only an artist, but also an oral historian, shaping the narrative passed down to future generations. Famous for her poetry, songs, and areitos (traditional dances) 2 None of these survive well to current day – about the only one firmly credited to her goes like this: Married to one of the five top caciques (Taino chiefs) and sister to another, she was one of the most respected people in the culture. ![]() She’d been a negotiator alongside her brother at the 1496 meeting with Columbus’s crew, and was present at the initial meeting in 1492, although it’s uncertain how much negotiation she did then.Īnacaona was about as upper-class as it got for the Taino. Her name was Anacaona 1 Which means “golden flower” in the Taino language –“caona”meaning gold. She’d come alongside others to negotiate. Their stories are so little taught that it may surprise you to learn that, when Columbus visited the Taino people in what is today Haiti, he was greeted by a woman. But while learning about their horrific “achievements”may be standard curriculum nowadays, it’s far rarer to learn anything about the people they massacred. It’s (thankfully) now common knowledge that Christopher Columbus and his geographically-challenged crew were murderous slavers, raping and pillaging their way across the Caribbean. ![]()
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