27408: Constant (reply)-- Corbett adds: Paquiot (reply) Re: 27404: Du Tuyau: (Response) Kawonabo (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

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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