Word: luko
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...several days each week, Luko Adjaffi, self proclaimed "international singer/songwriter," broadcasts his message from "the pit" near Out-of-Town News...
...colonizers enslaved natives by the thousands to work the sugar plantations, butchered whole tribes as a warning to others. Jesuit missionaries, serving as the Indians' first "protectors," instead became their oppressors by herding them into new settlements so that their lands could be more easily confiscated. Dreaded mame-luko* raiders-crossbreeds of Portuguese and native blood-disguised as priests, swept down on the missions to carry off their congregations, sometimes killing the Jesuit fathers as well. "[The captives] were led away, chained and corded, like herds of cattle." wrote one missionary in a horrified letter home. "Suckling babes were...