Guamá
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Guamá was a Taíno
rebel chief who led a rebellion against Spanish rule in Cuba
in the 1530s.
After the death of Spanish governor Diego de Velázquez http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0850600.html (circa 1460-1524) there was a series of indigenous uprisings. By 1530 Guamá had about fifty warriors and continued to recruit more pacified yndios, the rebellion mainly occurred in the extensive forests of the area of Çagua, near Baracoa
in the easternmost area of Cuba, but it also occurred further south and west in the Sierra Maestra
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Guamá was betrayed and murdered by his brother Oliguama circa 1532. According to oral tradition Oliguama, also spelled Holguoma http://webcutc.org/documentos/notinoticias14.htm http://www.trabajadores.cubaweb.cu/fijos/ciencias/enigmas_de_la_arqueologia/textos/cacique_guama.htm killed Guamá because the latter had taken his woman http://freeweb.supereva.com/carlo260/guama.html?p.
The death of Guamá and the capture and execution of his warrior wife Casiguaya, plus the killing or dispersal of most of the group by a cuadrilla, a war party of Spanish, Indians and Blacks under the orders of Spanish governor Manuel de Rojas, ended major resistance to the Spanish by 1533. Brizuela of Baitiquirí (Zayas, 1914) fought on until about 1540, when he was captured and imprisoned http://www.lademajagua.co.cu/bayamo.htm,http://www.lademajagua.co.cu/infgran778.htm.
There also was another cacique named Guama who fought the Spanish in Haiti.
Taíno people
The Taínos were pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles. It is thought that the seafaring Taínos are relatives of the Arawak people of South America...
rebel chief who led a rebellion against Spanish rule in Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
in the 1530s.
After the death of Spanish governor Diego de Velázquez http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0850600.html (circa 1460-1524) there was a series of indigenous uprisings. By 1530 Guamá had about fifty warriors and continued to recruit more pacified yndios, the rebellion mainly occurred in the extensive forests of the area of Çagua, near Baracoa
Baracoa
Baracoa is a municipality and city in Guantánamo Province near the eastern tip of Cuba. It was founded by the first governor of Cuba, the Spanish conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar in 1511...
in the easternmost area of Cuba, but it also occurred further south and west in the Sierra Maestra
Sierra Maestra
Sierra Maestra is a mountain range that runs westward across the south of the old Oriente Province from what is now Guantánamo Province to Niquero in southeast Cuba, rising abruptly from the coast. Some view it as a series of connecting ranges , which joins with others extending to the west...
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Guamá was betrayed and murdered by his brother Oliguama circa 1532. According to oral tradition Oliguama, also spelled Holguoma http://webcutc.org/documentos/notinoticias14.htm http://www.trabajadores.cubaweb.cu/fijos/ciencias/enigmas_de_la_arqueologia/textos/cacique_guama.htm killed Guamá because the latter had taken his woman http://freeweb.supereva.com/carlo260/guama.html?p.
The death of Guamá and the capture and execution of his warrior wife Casiguaya, plus the killing or dispersal of most of the group by a cuadrilla, a war party of Spanish, Indians and Blacks under the orders of Spanish governor Manuel de Rojas, ended major resistance to the Spanish by 1533. Brizuela of Baitiquirí (Zayas, 1914) fought on until about 1540, when he was captured and imprisoned http://www.lademajagua.co.cu/bayamo.htm,http://www.lademajagua.co.cu/infgran778.htm.
There also was another cacique named Guama who fought the Spanish in Haiti.