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Faith, power, and indigenous resistance across 500 years and two continents. From Russian Orthodox priests in Alaska to Anglicans in Tierra del Fuego — ten episodes on how missions reshaped the Americas, and how indigenous nations resisted, adapted, and survived them. Narrated by AI voices from sourced, human-reviewed research.
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For four centuries the question in Latin America was which church would convert the Indigenous. In the Cold War it became which Christianity would win the poor — and the two answers went to war. On one side, Catholic pri
At the frozen tip of the Americas, the spiritual conquest reached its coldest and bleakest end. An Anglican captain and his men starved in a Fuegian cave; the Yámana they came to save later rose up and killed the next mi
Deep in the forests between the Spanish and Portuguese empires, the Guaraní and the Jesuits built something no other people in the Americas managed: an armed, literate, self-governing republic of some thirty cities, with
In Brazil the cross and the slaver's net arrived together. For two centuries the Jesuits fought colonists for control of Indigenous bodies — protecting them from the sugar plantations while gathering them into mission vi
In the Andes the Spanish didn't find scattered villages but the devout remnant of an empire — and discovered, decades after declaring the people Christian, that they had been secretly feeding their mummified ancestors in
After Cortés destroyed the Aztec empire in 1521, twelve barefoot friars set out to convert millions — fast, because they believed it would trigger the end of the world. They tore down the temples and built churches from
In the 17th-century Eastern Woodlands, the French and English were badly outnumbered by powerful Native nations — so they made two opposite bets. The French Jesuit "Black Robes" moved into the longhouses and learned the
Spain conquered the Southwest and California not mainly with soldiers but with friars — gathering Native people into missions that were church, farm, factory, and, for many, prison. This episode tells how that system wor
There was no treaty for the Canadian Arctic — there was a race. Anglican ministers and Catholic Oblate priests paddled the same rivers to reach each Inuit and Dene family first, leaving "Catholic towns" and "Anglican tow
In 1880 a handful of Protestant leaders met in New York and divided the entire territory of Alaska into denominational "spheres of influence" — then ran federally funded schools to erase Native languages and ceremonies.
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