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In the encomienda, the Spanish crown granted a person a specified number of natives from a specific community, with the indigenous leaders in charge of mobilizing the assessed tribute and labor.
Encomienda System and the New World Indians. by Michael Busbin Along with the Spanish conquest and exploration, came Spanish customs and traditions. They brought along with them a system of forced labor called the encomienda. An encomienda was a means of giving to a Spaniard a restricted set of property rights over Indian labor (Yeager, 843). The Crown in Spain gave this to the Spaniard. The Spaniard, or encomendero, in return extracted tributes from the Indians in form of goods, metals, money, and labor (Yeager, 843).