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Usage examples of indio.

And someday soon, the Irish trespassers just might find themselves under attack by Spaniards and indios armed with short, armor-piercing bows and arrows.

After all, there were plenty of other nearby sources of enslavable indios.

Few indios had beards and the ones who grew a little facial hair tended to pluck it.

They chased the flag carrier through an almost solid wall of indios, trampling them under their horses' hooves and slashing them with their swords.

The king finally forbade the branding of encomienda indios and it came to be used only for the forced laborers and criminals who work in the dreaded silver mines.

My Aztec ancestors built temples in the valley to please the sun, moon, and rain gods, but after the indio gods were vanquished by Cortes and his conquistadors, the land and the indios upon it were divided into large haciendas, feudal domains owned by Spanish grandees.

I learned something about the indios of New Spain: The domesticated indios, raised like work animals on haciendas and in cities, were different than the ones who were not corrupted by the conquerors.

The type who had made his first days at the Academy Hell Week in plain truth, back when indios were a government-mandated rarity and fiercely resented.

As a mixed blood, he is without the protection of the law given to Spaniards and indios, and there are no legal prohibitions against either his torture or execution.

As we of the City of Mexico know even better than the rest of New Spain, this infliction of tainted blood caused by the mixture of pure Spanish blood with the blood of indios creates a most foul and noxious deformity of character, often resulting in human lice who pollute our streets, social outcasts we call léperos, social lepers who are lazy and stupid, making their way in life by stealing and begging.

From then on the indios gave praise to the Christian Savior rather than the Aztec gods.

The indios who worked the land grew maize, beans, squash, and other food stuffs, horses, cattle, sheep, and swine.

The king's laws actually protected indios from being put to death, but there was no protection for half-bloods.

Some even burned their initials into the foreheads of the indios to ensure that they could not stray.

Like so many times, changes came to me not with the tranquillity of a lazy river but with the volcanic bursts of those mountains the indios call fire mountains.