Andrew Hendy was a Hereditary Chief of the Mosquito Reservation. He was proclaimed by the Nicaraguans on the death of his cousin

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, who died on 8 November 1888. He was repudiated by many people of the Miskitu Nation and abdicated in favour of his cousin

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, on 8 March 1889. He retired to Nicaraguan territory where he became a Miskitu Jefe Inspector and River Magistrate. He was subsequently chosen as a rival Chief by General Rigoberto Cabezas who deposed

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in 1894. He was reappointed for the third time and formally installed at the Government Palace,

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, on 20 November 1894. He was later accepted as chief by his own relatives and others who resided around the Wangki River within traditional

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n territory, but was opposed by the vast majority, who saw him as a Nicaraguan stooge and rebelled against him in 1896, 1899 and 1900.

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