Indigenous Hispaniola

Hispaniola / Cuba

Hatuey

Life

?1512

Historical era

Indigenous Hispaniola

Role

Taíno cacique who fled Spanish Hispaniola to organize Cuban resistance.

Burned at the stake after refusing conversion; later hailed as an early anti-colonial martyr in Cuban and Haitian memory.

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