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 * [[Anacaona - poem by Alfred Tennyson]]
 * [[Arawak]] - Native language of the Taîno.
-* [[Taîno]] - Native of the Caribbean
+* [[Taìno]] - Native of the Caribbean
 ==References==

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 crouded into a Thatcht Barn or Hovel, to be exposed to the fury of the
 merciless Fire, and the rest to be pierced with Lances, and run through
-with the point of the Sword, by a multitude of Men: And <b>Anacaona,/b> her
+with the point of the Sword, by a multitude of Men: And <b>Anacaona,</b> her
 self who (as we said before,) sway'd the Imperial Scepter, to her
 greater honor was hanged on a Gibbet. And if it fell out that any
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 * [[Anacaona - poem by Alfred Tennyson]]
 * [[Arawak]] - Native language of the Taîno.
 ==References==

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 by delivering them from the evident and apparent danger of Death, did
 signal services to the Castilian Kings. Behechio dying the supreme
-power of the Kingdom fell to Anacaona: But it hapned one day, that
+power of the Kingdom fell to <b>Anacaona</b>: But it hapned one day, that
 the Governour of an Island [Nicolas de Ovando], attended by 60 Horse, and 30 Foot (now the
 Cavalry was sufficiently able to unpeople not only the Isle, but also
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 crouded into a Thatcht Barn or Hovel, to be exposed to the fury of the
 merciless Fire, and the rest to be pierced with Lances, and run through
-with the point of the Sword, by a multitude of Men: And Anacaona her
+with the point of the Sword, by a multitude of Men: And <b>Anacaona,/b> her
 self who (as we said before,) sway'd the Imperial Scepter, to her
 greater honor was hanged on a Gibbet. And if it fell out that any

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 * LaConga.org: [http://www.laconga.org/anacaona.htm Anakaona] - Article about Anacaona and her death in the massacre. [Spanish language]
 * Mémoire de Femmes: [http://www.jasminenarcisse.com/memoire/00_introduction/05_anacaona.html Anacaona, Fleur d'or] - (French text)
-* Wikipedia:  [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacaona Anacaona]
+* Wikipedia:  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacaona Anacaona]
 [[Category:Who's Who|Anacaona]]

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 * LaConga.org: [http://www.laconga.org/anacaona.htm Anakaona] - Article about Anacaona and her death in the massacre. [Spanish language]
 * Mémoire de Femmes: [http://www.jasminenarcisse.com/memoire/00_introduction/05_anacaona.html Anacaona, Fleur d'or] - (French text)
 [[Category:Who's Who|Anacaona]]

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−	[[image:kiskeya_pre_colombian.jpg\|right\|thumb\|260px\|The island of [[Kiskeya]] and it's Taíno boundaries.]]'''Anacaona''' ([[Arawak]] for ''Golden Flower''; French: ''Fleur d'or''; also ''Anakaona'' and ''Anakawona'') (born in Yaguana - today the town of [[Léogâne]], [[Haiti]] - 1503 Santo Domingo, [[Hispaniola]]) was a [[Taíno]] {Native American} queen and the wife of [[Caonabo]] (also ''Kawonabo''), one of the five caciques who lived on the the island of [[Kiskeya]] (also called Hispaniola) at the time of [[Columbus]] arrival in [[1492]].	+	[[image:kiskeya_pre_colombian.jpg\|right\|thumb\|260px\|The island of [[Kiskeya]] and it's Taíno boundaries.]]'''Anacaona''' ([[Arawak]] for ''Golden Flower''; French: ''Fleur d'or''; also ''Anakaona'' and ''Anakawona'') (born in Yaguana - today the town of [[Léogâne]], [[Haiti]] - 1503 Santo Domingo, [[Hispaniola]]) was a [[Taíno]] {Native American} queen, sister of King [[Behechio]], and the wife of [[Caonabo]] (also ''Kawonabo''), one of the five caciques who lived on the the island of [[Kiskeya]] (also called Hispaniola) at the time of [[Columbus]] arrival in [[1492]].

	==Anacaona - native Taíno ruler==		==Anacaona - native Taíno ruler==

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	==See also==		==See also==
		+	* [[Anacaona - poem by Alfred Tennyson]]
	* [[Arawak]] - Native language of the Taîno.		* [[Arawak]] - Native language of the Taîno.

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−	[[image:kiskeya_pre_colombian.jpg\|right\|thumb\|260px\|The island of [[Kiskeya]] and it's Taíno boundaries.]]'''Anacaona''' ([[Arawak]] for ''Golden Flower''; also ''Anakaona'' and ''Anakawona'') (born in Yaguana - today the town of [[Léogâne]], [[Haiti]] - 1503 Santo Domingo, [[Hispaniola]]) was a [[Taíno]] {Native American} queen and the wife of [[Caonabo]] (also ''Kawonabo''), one of the five caciques who lived on the the island of [[Kiskeya]] (also called Hispaniola) at the time of [[Columbus]] arrival in [[1492]].	+	[[image:kiskeya_pre_colombian.jpg\|right\|thumb\|260px\|The island of [[Kiskeya]] and it's Taíno boundaries.]]'''Anacaona''' ([[Arawak]] for ''Golden Flower''; French: ''Fleur d'or''; also ''Anakaona'' and ''Anakawona'') (born in Yaguana - today the town of [[Léogâne]], [[Haiti]] - 1503 Santo Domingo, [[Hispaniola]]) was a [[Taíno]] {Native American} queen and the wife of [[Caonabo]] (also ''Kawonabo''), one of the five caciques who lived on the the island of [[Kiskeya]] (also called Hispaniola) at the time of [[Columbus]] arrival in [[1492]].

	==Anacaona - native Taíno ruler==		==Anacaona - native Taíno ruler==

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-[[image:kiskeya_pre_colombian.jpg|right|thumb|260px|The island of [[Kiskeya]] and it's Taíno boundaries.]]'''Anacaona'''  ([[Arawak]] for ''Golden Flower''; also ''Anakaona'' and ''Anakawona'') (born in Yaguana - today the town of [[Léogâne]], [[Haiti]] - 1503 Santo Domingo, [[Hispaniola]]) was a [[Taíno]] {Native American} queen and the wife of Caonabo (also ''Kawonabo''), one of the five caciques who lived on the the island of [[Kiskeya]] (also called Hispaniola) at the time of [[Columbus]] arrival in [[1492]]. She was hailed as a composer of ballads and narrative poems, called areitos. She was the ruler of the Taíno kingdom of Xaragua, the last to fall to the Spanish colonialists. Her husband Caonabo, the ruler of the kingdom of Maguana, was deported to Spain in 1494.
+[[image:kiskeya_pre_colombian.jpg|right|thumb|260px|The island of [[Kiskeya]] and it's Taíno boundaries.]]'''Anacaona'''  ([[Arawak]] for ''Golden Flower''; also ''Anakaona'' and ''Anakawona'') (born in Yaguana - today the town of [[Léogâne]], [[Haiti]] - 1503 Santo Domingo, [[Hispaniola]]) was a [[Taíno]] {Native American} queen and the wife of [[Caonabo]] (also ''Kawonabo''), one of the five caciques who lived on the the island of [[Kiskeya]] (also called Hispaniola) at the time of [[Columbus]] arrival in [[1492]].
 In 1502 he Spanish Governor [[Nicolas de Ovando]] ordered the arrest of Anacaona, who was captured by deceit, similarily to [[Toussaint Louverture]] about 300 years later and then executed by hanging in the town of Santo Domingo in the year 1503. The survivors of the 1502 massacre at the court of Anacaona, during which she was captured, fled to the island of La Gonâve. ([[Arawak]]: ''Guanabo'' or ''Guanarana'').
-Anacaona is celebrated as one of the heroes of Haiti's struggle against colonialism and one of the many women in the fight that ultimately led to the successful Haitian Revolution and the [[Act of Independence]] in [[1804]].
+Anacaona is celebrated as one of the heroes of Haiti's struggle against colonialism and one of the many women in the fight that ultimately led to the successful Haitian Revolution and the [[Act of Independence]] in [[1804]]. Anacaona is also frequently mentioned alongside other Haitians of great historical significance, such as [[Toussaint Louverture]] and [[Jean Jacques Dessalines]].
-====Book by Edwidge Danticat====
+===Las Casas on Anacaona===
 The Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat has written a book of fiction - aimed at younger readers -  detailing the arrival of the Spanish in the [[Caribbean Sea]] from the view of the native Taíno.
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 ==References==
 * Danticat, Edwidge. (2005) ''Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490 (The Royal Diaries)''. New York: Scholastic Inc.. ISBN 0439499062
 ==External links==

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	The Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat has written a book of fiction - aimed at younger readers - detailing the arrival of the Spanish in the [[Caribbean Sea]] from the view of the native Taíno.		The Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat has written a book of fiction - aimed at younger readers - detailing the arrival of the Spanish in the [[Caribbean Sea]] from the view of the native Taíno.

		+	==See also==
		+	* [[Arawak]] - Native language of the Taîno.

	==References==		==References==