Anacaona

Life

1474 — 1503

Historical era

Indigenous Hispaniola

Role

Taíno cacica and poet; symbol of resistance to early Spanish rule.

Led one of the last Taíno chiefdoms before execution under Nicolás de Ovando; memory survives in Caribbean literature and national symbolism.

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