Yacampis
Ethimology
Ethimology
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As a colonial [exonym](/wiki/Endonym_and_exonym "Endonym and exonym"), the yacampis name could not be related to the one that these peoples identified themselves with. Recent studies even point to linking the origin of this name to that of the dominant family or leader in the area at the time of the arrival of the Spanish. In 1588, the name of a leader named Capaya\-Yacambis from the Angacao region (currently Jáchal) appears on a warrant issued to Captain Juan Baldovinos de Leyde. Together with other ethnonyms imposed by the colonizers \-for example, the exonym capayán to refer to the capayanes as a differentiated ethnic group\-, they could originally come from eponyms of the native peoples, names with which important events and characters associated with defense were known. of the territory, \-for example, in the Calchaquí valley, the Calchaquí peoples are known by reference to the cacique Juan Calchaquí, or the Tucumán, known as the land of Tuc'ma\-, but that did not entail ethnic, cultural, religious differences, linguistic or of some kind with their neighbors. The name would allude to the social structure of those native peoples who organized themselves politically through marriage unions between important lineages to establish territorial alliances, but which the colonial manipulation of the administration of entrusted Indians extended them as categories of ethnic identification.


Can you provide an example of a colonizer imposing their own name on an indigenous people?