Anacaona was a Taíno cacica — a ruling chief — of the province of Xaragua, in the western portion of Hispaniola that would eventually become Haiti.
She is the most fully documented Taíno political figure in madiou-indigenous-genocide-extraction, which draws directly on Bartolomé de Las Casas's testimony about the Spanish conquest of the island. Madiou describes her as both a political leader and a poet: "young, beautiful, adored by her subjects," she composed the poetry the Taíno sang in thei...
TimelineAcross the historical record.
- 1804-01-01
Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
declaration-independence-1804 — later event that reclaimed the Taíno name Haiti