Package, parcel; also historical term for form of trusteeship bestowed on Spaniards after conquest, granting them rights over the native population.
a trust, charge, or feudal fief. This term is often used in favour of the more exact repartimiento de Indios: 'an allotment of Indians,' the encomendero having the right to use their labour and extract tribute. The encomendero was obliged to both defend and instruct these Indians, as well as supply horses and arms to the King when required. In several ways, it was similar to the Inca mita system of tribute.
land in which Indians are given as tribute.
(Spanish) A grant of indigenous labor given to a Spanish settler by the Spanish crown. Initially, the crown saw the encomienda grant as an incentive for Spaniards to settle in the New World. In return for being allowed the use of native labor, encomenderos were charged with making sure their charges were evangelized. An important institution in the 16th century, encomiendas waned in the 17th.
a grant of Indian tribute in exchange for protection and Christian instruction.
A section of land and an indigenous workforce entrusted to an individual by the crown during the early colonial era.
grant of Indians. The Indians performed services and paid tribute to the encomendero.
is a system of forced labor, whereby indigenous peoples are "entrusted" in the care of Spanish colonists in the New World.
System under which officers of the Spanish conquistadores gained ownership of Indian land.
Spanish royal grant of authority over the labor of Native Americans in the Spanish colonies; the encomienda holder was required to convert the Native Americans to Christianity.
In the Spanish colonies, an encomienda was a grant to a Spanish settler of a certain number of Indian subjects, who would pay him tribute in goods and labor.
Grants of Indian laborers made to Spanish conquerors and settlers in Mesoamerica and South America; basis for earliest forms of coerced labor in Spanish colonies. (p. 583)
The encomienda system was a trusteeship labor system used during the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Conquistadors were granted trusteeship over the indigenous people they conquered, in an expansion of familiar feudal institutions, notably the commendation ceremony, which had been established in New Castile during the Reconquista. The system differed in that it did not entail any direct land tenure by the encomendero; Indian lands were to remain in their possession, a right that was formally protected by the Crown of Castile because at the beginning of the Conquest most of the rights of administration in the new lands went to the Castilian Queen.http://muweb.millersville.edu/~columbus/papers/scott-m.html Meredith Scott, "The Encomienda system""...