Anacaona

Anacaona was a Tano cacica , born into a family of chiefs, and sister of Bohecho, chief of Xaragua. Her husband was Caonabo, chief of the nearby territory of Maguana. Her brother and her husband were two of the five highest caciques who ruled the island of Kiskeya when the Spaniards settled there in 1492. She was celebrated as a composer of ballads and narrative poems, called aretos.

Anacaona was born in Maguana, where her Brother was Chieftan in 1474. During Christopher Columbuss visit in late 1496, Anacaona and her brother Bohecho appeared as equal negotiators. On that occasion, described by Bartolom de las Casas in Historia de las Indias, Columbus successfully negotiated for tribute of food and cotton to be paid by the natives to the Spanish under his command.

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