Cacique
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cacique-189-2195278
title:
Cacique
text:
A cacique, sometimes spelled as cazique, 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 kasike. Cacique was initially translated as "king" or "prince" for the Spanish. In the colonial era, the conquistadors and the administrators who followed them used the word generically to refer to any
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Hispanic term for indigenous American chief
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacique
date created:
2004-03-12T12:23:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T02:08:48Z
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