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How to use cacique in a sentence

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As in Cuba, Jamaica's inhabitants divided their island into provinces, each ruled over by a cacique assisted by village headmen or sub-chiefs.
According to Ridgely and Tudor, it is more likely to be mistaken for a cacique than an oropendola in the field.
The Spaniards had bearded the lion in his den, and were in a position of extreme peril should the cacique prove hostile.
These threats intensified following the detention of the cacique on 8 May 2008 in connection with the three killings.
Well over 100 notable species can be easily spotted in the Carara Reserve, including the great tinamou, red-lored parrot, crimson-fronted parakeet and scarlet-rumped cacique.
On one occasion she recognized one of the men following her as a supporter of the local cacique.
Using a small brigantine and ten native canoes, they sailed along the coast and made landfall in cacique Careta's territory.
On September 6, the expedition continued, now reinforced with 1,000 of Careta's men, and entered cacique Ponca's land.
In December, the expedition arrived back in the Caribbean coast, by the Gulf of San Blas, a strip of land ruled by cacique Pocorosa.
Spaniards extended the usage of cacique to refer to leaders at the town or village level in virtually all indigenous groups in Spanish America.
In the Andean region the term kuraka was also used as an alternative to cacique.
In the Philippines, the term cacique democracy was coined by Benedict Anderson.
It is from the perspective of a Mexican cacique on his deathbed.
Days later, the expedition arrived in the lands of cacique Comagre, fertile but reportedly dangerous terrain.
First, it has led to a renaissance of an old Spanish political phenomenon, the cacique or provincial political boss, as Antonio Muñoz Molina, a leading novelist, points out.
The fat cacique gave the Spanish conquistador and his commanders a gift of eight noblewomen in ornate clothing, with gold collars and earrings, to breed with.
In 2005, in a public recognition ceremony, the molar and bone remains of the Charrúa cacique Vaimaca Perú, previously on display at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris, were restored to the National Pantheon.
Among other initiatives, it has actively advised and supported communities from Santo Domingo Ixcatlán and Chalcatongo de Hidalgo, two communities involved in a long-standing land dispute involving the local cacique.
He was received by the native cacique Guacanagari, who gave him permission to leave some of his men behind.
At the end of 1512 and the first months of 1513, he arrived in a region dominated by the cacique Careta, whom he easily defeated and then befriended.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But he could not learn that the cacique had ever heard of such a body of water.
It was that cacique to whom those Nepoios went, which came with us from the town of Toparimaca.
The Spaniards traversed the country of a cacique, scoria, and arrived at the residence of another called Pariza.
He sat in the midst of a circle of lamplighters, and was the cacique, or chief of the tribe.
He was the cacique of the Sun and he was vexed because he had not been called earlier.
She put on her Shaman's dress and about the middle of the day the cacique of the Sun sent for them.
Thus, Petela, an ancient Zapotec cacique whose name signified dog, was worshiped in the cavern of Coatlan.
The cacique was taken prisoner and with him his entire Sardanapalian court.
Just at midnight the cacique put his martial bands in motion.
Ayllon struck down the cacique with his own sword as the nearest at hand.
But the cacique with the coronal asked intelligent questions.
Then they would crowd around the Cacique of the Sun to argue the matter.
A beautifully bred son of Danehill and Hasili, Cacique has been blighted by fertility problems throughout his stud career at Banstead Manor Stud.
The Cacique looked at the carriers on their backs and frowned.
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