José Barreiro

Jose Barreiro (1948/49-present) is a Taíno Indian/Cuban writer and professor of Native American Studies at Cornell University. In the early 1960s he was a media symbol and poster boy for the ill effects of communism when he was relocated as a refugee to Minnesota. His first novel, published in 1993, was called The Indian Chronicles, and is a pseudo-journal about the life of Diego Colon, a 12-year-old Taino that Christopher Columbus brought back with him to Spain in 1493, and who later returns to the Americas where he supports the Taino resistance led by Guarocuya.

loves long walks on the beach and drinking pina coladas in the rain

Reference

Kratzert, M. "Native American Literature: Expanding the Canon", Collection Building Vol. 17, 1, 1998, p. 4