What is "indios"

Usage examples of "indios".

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.

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.

But in the end, I believe, his insistence upon ministering to all equally, including indios and outcasts, was his sin.

Mestizos were a problem because they bore traits of both Spaniards and indios, and one trait occasionally stood out over the other.

For opposing its exploitation of the indios and its oppression of the mixed bloods?

The beans were a traditional form of money among the indios and were still used by them as currency.

The indios failed miserably as slaves, their death rate in the plantations and the mines so catastrophic that Crown and Church both feared their extinction.

Africanos were not only bigger and stronger than indios, but they survived the suffocating heat, back-breaking labor and deadly fevers that annihilated indios by the millions.