Sin Indios No Hay Indians Analysis

“Sin indios no hay Indias,” meaning, “without Indians, there are no Indies.” This is a very predictable quote about some of the colonial experiences. There were many positives and negatives associated with this time in history. Although agriculture, herding, and especially mining silver were a hit, there was a lacking in colonial trade and industry. At the beginning, there were good ingenuity and creativity. This brought Brazil to adopt some of the West Indies, Mexico, and Argentina’s industries. These industries were somewhat successful, but they did not come without a price. The fact that there was not much labor brought the use of Indians, eventually leading to importing African slaves. In some Spanish colonies, they were able to earn some freedom and social status, but …show more content…
Encomiendors were those who received grants of labor by being conquerors, or even not being a conqueror and still receiving a grant because their significance in a conquest or even if they just helped in conquest enough to receive a grant. The system eventually went crooked, as if it wasn’t already according to our morals and ethics now, and rumors started spreading in Santiago. This led 15,000 men to build an army and plan to rebel. This act did resulted in most of them being hanged, but after numerous revolts, it led to the policies over the Indian labor to finally become amended.
The encomienda system was toughly grounded by tribal identity. According to the law, the people of mixed raced, which were called Meztizo, could not be subject to the ecomienda. The laborers quickly started using this to their advantage. The Amerindians started removing their pure tribal identity and their ethnicity. They did this so that their children and future descendants would not have the specific tribal identity and they could live a better life than them. By doing this, this started diminishing the population on