Yanakuna were originally individuals in the Inca Empire who left the ayllu system and worked full-time at a variety of tasks for the Inca, the quya (Inca...

relatives of the Sapa Inca. The yanakuna formed a unique estate within Inca society and government. To become part of the yanakuna meant severing traditional...

in the territory it ruled. Among the institutions were the mit'a, the yanakuna, and the aclla. Each year the Inca government sent out representatives...

provided lodging for the Inca nobility, while the terraces were farmed by yanakuna, retainers of the emperor. After Pachacuti's death, the estate came under...

young Lautaro because of this incident. After his capture they made him a Yanakuna, meaning a “black slave” in Quechua. He remained a prisoner of the Spanish...

the construction of a guha (cave monastery) at Jayapura. La Malinche, Yanakuna, Benedict Arnold, Vidkun Quisling, similar terms associated with "traitors"...

translators and porters, and in these roles were also referred to as yanakuna, particularly during the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. The term...

River. Spanish conquerors entering Chile were acompanied by thousands of yanakuna from the already subdued territories of the Inca Empire as well by a few...

introduced after the Spanish conquest by the uprooted foreign Quechua yanakuna slave-servants belonging to the defunct Inca Empire who were brought by...

centers). Pachacuti occasionally elevated individuals from the class of yanakunas, who left the system of kinship groups (ayllus and panakas) and weren't...

scarce as labor force on haciendas, the people of color gained a title of yanakuna, hitherto assigned only to indigenous servants with full right to own a...

Valdivia's army of 200 Spanish soldiers and cavalry with a large number of yanakuna, including 300 Mapochoes auxiliaries under their leader Michimalonco. After...

practice of Mita (forced labour for the empire, e.g. silver mining) and the Yanakuna who are skilled individuals forcibly removed from their Ayllus to perform...

third source of labor for the estate was the yanakunas, the permanent servants of the Incas. The Yanakuna's often rose to high positions in the Empire,...

colonial times indios reyunos was a term to designate a group of huilliche yanakuna that settled in the area of Calbuco and Abtao, Southern Chile. This group...

from Concepcion, Garcia lead a force of 600 well armed soldiers and 1500 yanakunas, who were attacked by the Mapuche forces in a marsh named "lagunillas"...

Indians near Aconcagua. Early on the morning of September 10, 1541, a young yanakuna brought word to Captain Alonso de Monroy, who had been left in charge of...

Mapuche tribes within or near the Incan Empire paid tributes in gold. Incan yanakuna are believed by archaeologists Tom Dillehay and Américo Gordon to have...

General of Chile Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata Indian auxiliaries Yanakuna Indios reyunos Boroano people Indigenous peoples of Araucania and Futahuillimapu...

fort of Cañete expecting the gates to be opened by the treachery of a yanakuna within, but he was betrayed instead and was badly defeated by Captain Alonso...

made use of local labor, but also were staffed by a servant class called yanakunas who were ruled directly by Inca nobles and were outside the ayllu kinship...

next to Bío Bío River in the early 1530s before returning north. Inca yanakuna are believed by archaeologists Tom Dillehay and Américo Gordon to have...

1578. When Valdivia and Osorno were destroyed, Spanish settlers and loyal yanakuna marched south, evading hostile Cuncos and Huilliches. Reaching Chacao Channel...

leaders Pedro de Valdivia Malloquete Strength 60 Spanish soldiers many yanakuna 7-8,000 warriors according to Valdivia, considered exaggerated, modern...

Swamp by Simón Bolívar would be fought. Maldonado, enforced with 2000 yanakunas; indigenous prisoners of war from Peru and submitted people from Bacatá...

such as Hugo Jamioy from the Kamëntsá people, Fredy Chikangana from the Yanakuna people, and Vito Apüshana from the Wayuu people. It premiered at the Teatro...

Pedro de Villagra vice toqui Lautaro Strength 40 Spanish soldiers, 400 yanakuna 300 soldiers Casualties and losses Two Spaniards were killed 200 killed...

were 32 cavalry, 18 men armed with arquebuses, and between 300 and 350 yanakuna under the command of the Lieutenant General, Alonso de Monroy. The Mapuche...

Caupolicán vice toqui Lautaro Strength 55 Spanish soldiers 2,000–5,000 yanakuna more than 50,000 warriors according to Spanish sources, considered exaggerated...

Ricke asked the Cabildo to hand over, on the one hand, some land for the Yanakuna Indigenous who served the Basilica and, on the other hand, one more piece...