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CANADA FIRST NATIONS BACK TAINO TREATY
A peace treaty signed in 1533, in in the Caribbean between a Taino cacique and a representative of the King of Spain was recognized as the "first international treaty in the Americas between Indigenous people and Europeans," by over 100 delegates to the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Treaty Conference, held in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories on Oct. 28.
It is a little-known fact of history that even as Cuzco fell to the Spanish invasion in 1533, Taino cacique Enriquillo (Guarocuya; Cacique Henri) was fighting a war in Quisqueya (later christened Hispaniola, present day Haiti-Dominican Republic), having deployed camps throughout the Bahoruco mountains. Enriquillo, "a...