Taino: A Novel by José Barreiro

By José Barreiro

"Written" by way of Guaikán, the aged Taino guy who, in his adolescence, was once followed through Christopher Columbus and observed heritage spread, Taino is the Indian chronicle of the yank come across, the local view on Columbus and what occurred within the Caribbean. This novel, in keeping with a real tale, penetrates the historic veil that also enshrines the "discovery."

Presently a senior fellow on the Smithsonian nationwide Museum of the yankee Indian, José Barreiro is a novelist, essayist, and an activist of approximately 4 many years on American indigenous hemispheric subject matters. Barreiro is a member of the Taino kingdom of the Antilles.

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