Missionaries: From Alaska to Patagonia

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.

Missionaries: From Alaska to Patagonia is a education podcast hosted by Nick Mackenzie, with 10 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Nick Mackenzie hosts Missionaries: From Alaska to Patagonia, a education show with 10 episodes published.

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  Episode #10

  The Cold War Battle for Latin Souls: Liberation Theology, Evangelicals, and the CIA

  Jun 11, 2026—S0

  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 priests reading the Gospel as a demand to overturn unjust structures; on the other, a surging conservative Protestantism preaching personal salvation and anti-communism, backed — to a degree historians still debate — by Washington and its intelligence agencies. This special thematic episode of Missionaries: Alaska to Patagonia steps off the geographic map into the 20th century. We trace liberation theology from Medellín (1968) and its Chr...

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  Episode #9

  Indigenous Survival in Tierra del Fuego: Missions, Genocide, and the Refusal of Extinction

  Jun 11, 2026—S0

  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 missionaries on the beach. The one missionary who truly learned their language built a 32,000-word dictionary of it — and watched the people who spoke it die of the diseases his own mission carried in. To the north, sheep companies paid a bounty for dead Selk'nam, and the Catholic missions that "rescued" the survivors became quieter death camps. This ninth and...

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  Episode #8

  How the Guaraní Fought Two Empires: The Jesuit Reductions and the Guaraní War

  Jun 11, 2026—S0

  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 its own communal economy and its own army — an army that in 1641 wiped out a Portuguese slaving expedition and held the frontier for a century. Then two kings in Europe traded the land out from under them, and the Guaraní went to war rather than obey. This eighth episode of Missionaries: Alaska to Patagonia is the series' high point of Indigenous agency. We tour the "Republic of t...

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  Episode #7

  The 500-Year Crusade for Amazonian Souls: Jesuits, Pombal, and the Uncontacted

  Jun 11, 2026—S0

  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 villages and inventing a single language to convert them in. Then a Portuguese prime minister destroyed the whole system overnight, banned the language on pain of the whip, and the catastrophes that followed have never really stopped — because in the Amazon, the spiritual conquest is still happening. This seventh episode of Missionaries: Alaska to Patagonia runs from the 1500s to today: José de Anchieta and the aldeia syste...

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  Episode #6

  Andean Resistance and the War on "Idolatry": Missions in the Inca World

  Jun 11, 2026—S0

  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 mountain caves the whole time. The Church's answer was the Extirpation of Idolatries: torture the elders, find the sacred stones and the mummies, and burn them in the square. This sixth episode of Missionaries: Alaska to Patagonia traces the Andean mission machine: the doctrina parish system, where the priest doubled as a tax collector and a labor boss feeding the deadly silver mines of Potosí; the sta...

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