Anacaona, Golden Flower
by Edwidge Danticat · 2005
Popularity 40
Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies, ravenous for gold.
HistoryDiariesJuvenile fictionSpanishFictionIndians of the West IndiesKings, queens, rulersTaino IndiansDiscovery and explorationQueensChildren's fictionIndians of north america, fiction