cacique
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thumb|right|Túpac Amaru II, an Andean cacique who led a 1781 rebellion against Spanish rule in Peru thumb|Cangapol, chief of the Tehuelches, 18th century.
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Spanish colonial-era caciques
- Cacicas in colonial Mexico
- ''Caciquismo'' and ''caudillismo''
- Taínos
- Other notable native caciques of the Americas
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|right|Túpac Amaru II, an Andean cacique who led a 1781 rebellion against Spanish rule in Peru thumb|Cangapol, chief of the Tehuelches, 18th century.
A cacique, sometimes spelled as cazique (; ; feminine form: '), was a tribal chieftain of the Taíno people, who were the Indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles at the time of European contact with those places. The term is a Spanish transliteration of the Taíno word '.
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