These events are sustained from year-to-year because the administrators use tactics similar to the ways in which the Mexican friars utilized confession as an apparatus of control for the indigenous population. ... Through these insights about what was relevant to the indigenous, the friars could find ways to permeate the day-to-day lives of the Nahua. ... Upon the administration of Christianity in the new world, the friars were unable to sustain indigenous followers with the peculiar attitude the indigenous had towards secular justice. A number of Franciscan friars even pleaded to remove the N...

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