Encomienda — Social Studies definition
A colonial grant of claims to tribute and associated obligations, not a simple synonym for ownership of land or persons.
Where it is taught
- Conquest, Colonial Labor & Indigenous Continuity — Americas, European Reforms & Atlantic Encounters, Global History & Geography I: Early Societies to c. 1750, Grade 9
In use
Encomienda assigned claims to tribute and labor obligations rather than simply granting ownership of every person or all land.
Conquest, Colonial Labor & Indigenous Continuity