A cacique, sometimes spelled as cazique (Latin American Spanish: [kaˈsike]; Portuguese: [kɐˈsikɨ, kaˈsiki]; feminine form: cacica), was a tribal chieftain of certain Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and Latin America, including the Kalinago and Taíno peoples, who were Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean at the time of European contact with those places. The term is a Spanish derivation from the Kalinago word kassiquan.
A cacique, sometimes spelled as cazique (Latin American Spanish: [kaˈsike]; Portuguese: [kɐˈsikɨ, kaˈsiki]; feminine form: cacica), was a tribal chieftain of certain Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and Latin America, including the Kalinago and Taíno peoples, who were Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean at the time of European contact with those places. The term is a Spanish derivation from the Kalinago word kassiquan.
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