How were native americans treated under the encomienda system?

Copy this: The Native Americans were treated cruelly and were forced to work for the Spanish.

Native Americans were forced to work in the gold and silver mines. Many died when tunnels caved in. This is a cruel treatment.

Explanation:

i do believe its (d) it allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.

explanation: signed into law in may 1862, the homestead act opened up settlement in the western united states, allowing any american, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. by the end of the civil war, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years