Their successor as governor of the new colony, Nicolas Ovando, of Spain, decided to take action to pacify the Taíno once and for all. He arranged for Anacaona, the widely respected Taíno kacika (chieftess or queen), the widow of Caonabó, to organize a feast, supposedly to welcome the new governor to the island. When 80-plus of the islands kacikes were assembled in Anacaonas large wooden caney (palace) near the site of todays Port au Prince, in Haití, the Spanish soldiers surrounded it and set it on fire. Those who were not killed immediately were brutally tortured to death. After a mock trial in Santo Domingo, Anacaona was also hanged. Ovando ordered a similar campaign to kill all the Taíno kacikes in the eastern part of the island. With few remaining Taíno leaders, future resistance from the Taíno was virtually eliminated. It was a pattern that Spaniards carried into the rest of the Americas. and yet im supposed to be grateful for this??? This little tidbit of history found on a website called Hispanola dot com and apparently nothing existed before 1492.... #CreativeJuicesFlowing #PuttingRageToPage #ThisKeyboardIsOnFire
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 00:16:36 +0000
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