... virtually no cultural mixing. The Indians were "simply outside "in both physical and linguistic senses "the evolving colonial project" (Russel 39). There were many confrontations between Indians and settlers, but because of Western weaponry and disease, as well as a new freedom from England ... and primitive religious practices. They attempted to eradicate all evidence of the native religion as Burkholder and Johnson point out in Colonial Latin America, "After cleaning the temples of the stains and stench left from human sacrifices and whitewashing their interiors, the Spaniards replaced...

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