Re: Native accounts of Columbus, Cortes, Pizzaro
Jose Barreiro (jose_barreiro@qmcampl.mail.cornell.edu)
Sun, 20 Nov 1994 16:56:47 -0500
>The poem makes references to specific victims of Columbus, Corte's, and
>Pizzaro. For example: Chaske's spine was crushed by Pizzaro's boot; Corte's
>Redstick Hummingbirds); a Taino whose name was Laughing Otter was taken as
>a slave; Greenrock Woman was an old lady who spat in Columbus's face.
Laughing Otter is not a Taino name. There were no otters in the Taino
traditional territories.