Higuey or Caizcimu: Revisiting Indigenous Eastern Hispaniola

Eastern part of Hispaniola (including Caizcimu and Higuey) from the 1517 Morales Map . Higüey, or Caizcimu, the eastern part of Hispaniola, represents another region that hosted a major cacicazgo in the time of Columbus. But when one examines surviving documentary evidence, the theory of a paramount chiefdom in eastern Hispaniola becomes much weaker or ambiguous. Instead, as Alice Samson has…