Introduction / Gaspar Antonio Chi : bridging the conquest of Yucatán / Don Melchior Caruarayco : a kuraka of Cajamarca in sixteenth-century Peru / Doña Isabel Sisa : a sixteenth-century Indian woman resisting gender inequalities / Domingos Fernandes Nobre : "Tomacauna," a go-between in sixteenth-century Brazil / The mysterious Catalina : Indian or Spaniard? / Ursula de Jesús : a seventeenth-century Afro-Peruvian mystic / Agustina Ruiz : sexuality and religiosity in colonial Mexico / Zumbi of Palmares : challenging the Portuguese colonial order / Diego de Ocaña : holy wanderer / Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala : native writer and litigant in early colonial Peru / Ana de Vega : seventeenth-century Afro-Mexican healer / Pedro de Ayarza : the purchase of whiteness / Victorina Loza : quiteña merchant in the second half of the eighteenth century / José Antonio da Silva : marriage and concubinage in colonial Brazil / Juan Barbarín : the 1795 French conspiracy in Buenos Aires / Agustín Agualongo and the royalist cause in the wars of independence / Angela Batallas : a fight for freedom in Guayaquil