Anacaona, Golden Flower

By Edwidge Danticat

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

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.