What pain killed the Higuemota?
- Hispaniola, 1522. The Guarocuya and his wife Mencia de Guevara rose up against the conquerors and after 11 years of struggle they managed to sign the first agreement between the locals and the conquerors. His father was the Basque sailor Hernando de Guevara, who had arrived on the island in the first expeditions of Colón, and his mother Princess Higuemota, daughter of the leader Anacaona del Jaragua.
Guevara and Higuemota “fell in love” and married in 1500. From that moment on, it takes the name of Ana de Guevara – or they make it pass by –. It was the first marriage between an American and a European. The Colón brothers apparently did not see the wedding with good eyes and arrested Guevara. Outraged, seafarers of Basque origin rose up against the colonians, led by the cousin of Guevara, Adrián de Muxika. The revolt was severely stifled after the arrest and execution of Muxika.
But it doesn't seem that Muxika has given her life just for defending her cousin's love relationship. In the second expedition, in 1497, Muxika and others rebelled against Bartolomé Colón and this was not the only internal opposition that the leaders of the conquerors had in those years.
Nor is the opinion of the mother of the Higuaona on marriage clear. Some sources say that it was he who promoted marriage, because he admired the wisdom of the conquerors. Even if this had been the case at the outset, then the Queen would then try to combat the abuse of Europeans, which she would also have paid dearly.
We know, therefore, that Higudna's mother and daughter fought against the conquerors, but we know little about the princess's own attitude.
Donald Trump has the ugly habit of using the nickname “Pocahontas” as an insult to Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren and, recently, Warren has responded by remembering who was the real Pocahontas at the American National Congress. He has reported that they kidnapped, imprisoned and raped Pocahontas and that his life was full of "bravery and pain."
One of the few things that chroniclers, always in favor of the conquerors, quote from Higudac, is that the princess “died of pain” in 1509, six years before for the pain caused by the death of her husband. But it is not said that the fact that his mother was hanged in the same year influenced it. And presumably what Higuemoda lived is closer to the real life of Pocahontas than to the love story of the Disney princess.
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