Anacaona

The "Golden Flower" Anacaona, celebrated for her areítos, ballads and narrative poems, is a Taíno cacica or chief whose husband was Caonabo, chief of Maguana. A shipwreck took her husband's life when he had been captured and was on his way to Spain, accused of having organized an attack on a Spanish settlement. The ill-treatment from the Europeans made Taínos revolt against them, but Anacaona stayed neutral until the meeting house where a feast was organized by chieftains to honor her was set on fire. The Europeans burned the chieftains alive and arrested Anacaona and her noblemen. They were accused of conspiracy for resisting occupation and executed, all but Anacaona who was told that she would escape execution if she gave herself as concubine to one of the Europeans. She choose to stand with her fellow Tainos in solidarity, facing execution, when we managed to overcome the soldiers and free her and her countrymen.