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The weak and disorganized survivors of Kuriyuki were put to work on the new European-owned haciendas created in what had been their territory. This developed into a kind of land-bondage or serfdom, much resembling slavery, mirroring the reality of most indigenous peoples in Bolivia at that time.

And for more than half of Chuquisaca's 14,000 Guaraní this land-bondage, or serfdom, or slavery, continues today. (The Spanish word the Guaraní most commonly use to describe themselves is cautivo, or "captive".) The Great Revolution of 1952, which freed most of Bolivia's indigenous and provided them with rights, education, and land (some of it in the Cañón del Ingre), seems to have completely passed over the Guaraní.

This picture was taken after Kuriyuki; here the quereimba are armed with farming tools.