Anacaona, Golden Flower

By Edwidge Danticat

Subjects: Haiti, fiction, Indians of north america, fiction, Kings, queens, rulers, etc., fiction, Queens, Kings, queens, rulers, Discovery and exploration, Spanish, Diaries, fiction, Taino Indians, Diaries, Fiction, Children's fiction, Indians of the West Indies, America, discovery and exploration, fiction, Juvenile fiction, History

Description: 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.