| 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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| Argentina's brutal encomienda system literally worked indigenous laborers to death. |
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| The resulting New Laws of 1542 began the suppression of the encomienda system of exploitation of Indian labour. |
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| This they accomplished mainly by subjugating the remaining Indians under the encomienda system, which granted settlers the use of Indian labour on lands awarded by the crown. |
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| The natives of Santo Domingo were reluctant to work for the Spanish colonists, and Ovando, with royal authority, established the paternalistic encomienda system. |
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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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| 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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| Cabrillo benefited from the encomienda system that enslaved the Native peoples of the Americas. |
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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 territory's indigenous population resented the Spanish prohibition of their traditional religion, and the encomienda system of forced labor. |
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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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| Relics of the colonial encomienda system, which supported a type of feudal landholding, led to an uneven distribution of land that allowed some 2 percent of the owners to control roughly 80 percent of the land. |
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