The history of Kiskeya (Quisqueya)
(Native Haiti & Dominican Republic)

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Indian Vision/Spanish Mission
By José Barreiro, Northeast Indian Quarterly, Fall 1990. The economic culture of the American Indian in contrast to European Judeo-Roman-Christian precepts. Example of Cacique Guarionex’ reaction in San Domingo to Columbus’ 1494-95 gold tribute. Relation of Taino social culture and their economic culture.
Pre-Columbian Hispaniola—Arawak/Taino Indians
By Bob Corbett, 19 June 1996. A synthesis of some of the literature regarding Taino pre-contact political history and ethnography. Author suggests that the death of all Taino in Hispaniola (today’s Haiti and Dominican Republic) may be the only case in history of where a complete and total genocide was carried out.
Benson comment on Taino artifacts
Brief comment by L. Benson, 20 November 1996, on new interest in Haiti in Taino cultural roots and 19th-century evidence for Taino survival.
Unearthing Evidence of a Caribbean massacre
The Los Angeles Times, [21 August 1997]. Researchers believe they have discovered the site of one of the most brutal and bloody massacres of Indians by Spanish conquistadores. The discovery of the remains of the settlement provides the first archeological documentation of the episode and of the peace-loving Taino people who lived there.