Treasure Island (1972 live-action film) Treasure Island (1972 live-action film) Treasure Island is a 1972 adventure film, based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. The film stars Orson Welles as Long John Silver, Kim Burfield as Jim Hawkins, Walter Slezak as Squire Trelawney, Rik Battaglia as Captain Smollett, and Ángel del Pozo as Doctor Livesey. This adaptation of "Treasure Island" was released in several different language versions, each with a different director. Jim Hawkins (Kim Burfield) is a young boy who works at a pub with his mother (Maria Rohm). When a drunken old sailor named Billy Bones (Lionel Stander) comes in for a
Chiefdoms of Hispaniola Chiefdoms of Hispaniola The chiefdoms of Hispaniola ("cacicazgo" in Spanish) were the primary political units employed by the Taíno inhabitants of Hispaniola (Taíno: "Ayiti", "Quisqueya", or "Bohio") in the early historical era. At the time of European contact in 1492, the island was divided into five chiefdoms or "cacicazgos", each headed by a cacique or paramount chief. Below him were lesser caciques presiding over villages or districts and "nitaínos", an elite class in Taíno society. The Taíno of Hispaniola were an Arawak people related to the inhabitants of the other islands in the Greater Antilles. At the time of European