Andrés Canché became the cacique, or indigenous leader, of Cenotillo, Yucatán, in January 1834. By his retirement in 1864, he had become an expert politician

Andrés Canché became the cacique, or indigenous leader, of Cenotillo, Yucatán, in January 1834. By his retirement in 1864, he had become an expert politician

Colonial and postcolonial change in Mesoamerica : an introduction / Susan Kepecs and Rani T. Alexander -- Mexico City, Mérida, and the world : Kondratieff wave

The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, the female counterpart to caciques, the Arawak word for male indigenous leaders in Spanish America. But the

Reveals how British officials attempted to understand and impose order on northern Belize during the second half of the nineteenth century.