Cacique Henri — known in Spanish sources as Enriquillo — was the Taíno leader who conducted a fourteen-year guerrilla resistance against Spanish colonial authority in Hispaniola from approximately 1519 to 1533.
He signed a peace treaty with the Spanish crown at the end of that resistance, the only Taíno leader to negotiate formal recognition of his people's liberty from a colonial power. In Haitian historiography, preserved primarily through Thomas Madiou's Histoire d'Haïti, Henri stands as t...
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- 1804-01-01
Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
declaration-independence-1804 — Independence-name context where Indigenous memory enters Haitian state formation.