Indigenous topics of the Caribbean

Tainos tribes in Hispaniola

genetics on the peopling of the Americas

The Repartimiento () (Spanish, "distribution, partition, or division") was a colonial labor system imposed upon the indigenous population of Spanish America and the Philippines. In concept, it was similar to other tribute-labor systems, such as the ''mit'a of the Inca Empire or the corvée of the Ancien Régime de France: Through the pueblos de indios, the Amerindians were drafted work for cycles of weeks, months, or years, on farms, in mines, in workshops (obrajes''), and public projects.

thumb|A map by Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian of historical cacicazgos in [[Puerto Rico]] A cacicazgo (Spanish; also anglicized as caciquedom) is a Taíno chiefdom, ruled by a cacique. The Spanish colonial system recognized indigenous elites as nobles in Mexico and Peru, and other areas. Nobles could entail their estates, which were called cacicazgos on the model of Spanish entailed estates, or mayorazgos. This term is found in contexts such as "la princesa de Cofachiqui, señora de un cacigazgo indígena" or, for example: "In November of 1493, the island of Boriquén had approximately 20 caci

open-air limestone cave in the Dominican Republic

slavery of and by the indigenous peoples of the Americas

French-led ethnic cleansing of the Carib population in 1660 from present-day Martinique, following the French conquest of the island in 1635