| The encomienda system obliged Indians to work for the Spanish in order to pay a large tax. |
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| First, the Franciscans were highly critical of the military conquest of the Indians and of the encomienda system in general. |
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| The entire Soconusco area became a Crown encomienda, with small-scale plots worked by individual families. |
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| He served as chaplain in the conquest of Cuba, and received a second encomienda. |
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| The new encomienda began to function with fifty farmers from Castilla, chosen by Las Casas himself. |
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| He himself renounced possession of his own encomienda, where he had used the forced labor of Indians to prosper as a planter. |
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| The earliest political system used during the conquista period was the encomienda system, which resembled the feudal system in medieval Europe. |
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| The forced repartimiento of native workers was made by an organization of feudal origin called encomienda. |
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| De Almagro eventually returned and settled in Darien, where he was granted an encomienda. |
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| His first-hand knowledge helped him to speak extensively and argumentatively about the conditions in which Indians lived under the encomienda system. |
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| Your brother The cleric, Bartolomé de Las Casas had an encomienda of Indians in Hispaniola and, when he accompanied Diego Veláquez as chaplain in the conquest of Cuba, he received another encomienda. |
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| By 1503, the Spanish Crown legalized the distribution of Indians to work the mines as part of the encomienda system. |
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| The encomienda system forced natives to work in gold mines and plantations. |
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| The indigenous ruler of the settlement was charged with mobilization labor and tribute that was due the holder of the encomienda. |
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| The end of the encomienda system in Azuero, however, sparked the conquest of Veraguas in that same year. |
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| Cabrillo benefited from the encomienda system that enslaved the Native peoples of the Americas. |
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| The territory's indigenous population resented the Spanish prohibition of their traditional religion, and the encomienda system of forced labor. |
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| In return, the person granted the encomienda, known as an encomendero, was tasked to provide military protection to the inhabitants, justice and governance. |
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| After 1687, they founded several missions in Trinidad, supported and richly funded by the state, which also granted encomienda over the native people to them. |
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| In the newly conquered region, the old system of encomienda was imposed. |
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