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27408: Constant (reply)-- Corbett adds: Paquiot (reply) Re: 27404: Du Tuyau: (Response) Kawonabo (fwd)
From: Jacques Constant <paquiot@yahoo.com>
"Last I checked in Preparatoire 1 at JMG (1st grade I think) in Haiti
with Mèt Pena, Kawonabo was Caonabo in French, a Indian queen before Haiti
become St-Domingue and slave nation."
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Bob Corbett adds:
What Jacques Constant says above just didn't hit a responsive cord in my
memory and sent me scurring to my library.
In a long essay "The Aborigines of the Anciet Island of Hispaniola" by
Herbert W. Krieger (Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, publication
#3034, 1929, page 474) he says (Agreeing with Paquiot): in a discussion
of the destruction of the La Navidad colony which Columbus had
established: "Its downfall was instigaed by the Indian cacique of the
Cibao, Caonabo, but was hastened by the dessolute conduct of the first
colonists themselves."
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Paquiot had written:
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With all due respect, Viandemoulue, (I enjoyed reading your posts),
Caonabo was a man, the cacique of the Maguana province. Maybe you're
thinking about Anacaona, his sister, cacique of Xaragua whose main city
was Yguana now Léôgane. I agreee that who you are is irrelevant to the BIG
picture.
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