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of Caucubú as “Brave Earth,” and Naridó as “River Being,” are based on Taíno lexicons in modern references.
    It is tempting to associate Brave Earth with the “brave new world” speech of Miranda in act 5, scene 1, of William Shakespeare’s marvelous play The Tempest . Scholars have never been able to verify all the British playwright’s sources of inspiration. It is intriguing to imagine him in a smoky inn on a foggy night, listening to some wandering seafarer’s tale of hurricanes, castaways, caves, masked dancers, island spirits, forbidden love, and a girl named Brave Earth.

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    Horwitz, Tony. A Voyage Long and Strange. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
    Keegan, William F., and Lisabeth A. Carlson. Talking Taíno: Caribbean Natural History from a Native Perspective. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2008.
    Las Casas, Bartolomé de. Historia de las Indias. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1957.
    Pané, Fray Ramón. An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    I thank God for the quiet times between storms.
    As always, I am grateful to Curtis, Victor, Nicole, and the rest of my family.
    Special thanks to Pamela S. Turner, Martha Moreira Yunis, the Cuban DNA Project, and the Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution.
    For helping me rescue this manuscript from numerous shipwrecked drafts, I am profoundly grateful to my wonderful editor, Reka Simonsen. I am also deeply indebted to Tim Jones, Laura Godwin, Deirdre Jacobson, Rich Deas, Liz Herzog, Sarah Dotts Barley, and the entire Holt/Macmillan team.

 
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