| Others, such as caciques, used the mission system itself to improve their material interests and cultural autonomy. |
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| A share tenant system has made most farmers captives of landlords, or caciques. |
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| They included four oropendolas and four caciques in a molecular study of blackbird relationships using cytochrome-b sequence data. |
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| In contrast, all analyses strongly supported the monophyly of the oropendolas and caciques together. |
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| Gifts of a pair of scissors or a looking glass were made to the caciques or village headmen from time to time to keep them friendly. |
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| By February the Indian caciques saw the Spaniards were at their mercy and refused to provide any more provisions. |
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| The Guarani caciques exchanged women to formalize their alliance with the Spanish against the hostile peoples of the Chaco. |
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| Moreover, new caciques emerged in the wake of agrarian reform, as officials of the agrarian bank and ejidal bosses entrenched themselves locally. |
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| He observed that both species construct nests similar to those of some caciques and, curiously, they often nest together in mixed-species colonies. |
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| To this end, he crossed through the lands of caciques Coquera and Tumaco, defeating them easily and taking their riches of gold and pearls. |
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| With few resources and using information given by caciques, he journeyed across the Isthmus of Panama with 190 Spaniards, a few native guides, and a pack of dogs. |
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| In Peru, the Spaniards had allowed the caciques to maintain their titles of nobility and perquisites of local rule so long as they were loyal to the Spanish monarch. |
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| Unlike the early Caribbean caciques who rebelled shortly after the imposition of Spanish rule, the Tupac Amaru rebellion came after 250 years of colonial rule. |
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| He had many women as his mistresses, the daughters of chieftains, but two legitimate wives who were Caciques in their own right, and only some of his servants knew of it. |
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