In the academic field of sociology of law, the relationship between the law and violence has been argued. In anthropology, the law has been viewed in the historical process of the juridical system in the third world. In this paper, I try to define the function of violence during the process of law enforcement, thus contributing a connection of these two academic fields.
　In this article we examine two official texts which were written during the 1881 rebellion. The first one is a report concerning the process of suppression, which was written by a Ministry of War. By analyzing this text, we can understand the actual form of articulation of the indigenous people towards the juridical system in power at that time. The second one is a record from the military court. In this trial, two people who participated in the rebellion were sentenced to death. This decision was partly a sanction by which the social system is maintained, and partly a symbolic sentence of triumph of Military-Political power over the traditional system concerning indigenous people.
　This new form of Hegemony was made possible during the process of the repression. However, this new political form has not been able to maintain power; the indigenous people of Nicaragua have not disappeared; on the contray, they are forming new relationships and new systems within the 'Indigenous Community' in Matagalpa today.

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