Introduction / Kenneth J. Andrien -- Gaspar Antonio Chi : bridging the conquest of Yucatán / Matthew Restall -- Don Melchior Caruarayco : a kuraka of Cajamarca in sixteenth-century Peru / Susan E. Ramírez -- Doña Isabel Sisa : a sixteenth-century Indian woman resisting gender inequalities / Ana María Presta -- Domingos Fernandes Nobre : "Tomacauna," a go-between in sixteenth-century Brazil / Alida C. Metcalf -- The mysterious Catalina : Indian or Spaniard? / Noble David Cook -- Ursula de Jesús : a seventeenth-century Afro-Peruvian mystic / Nancy E. van Deusen -- Agustina Ruiz : sexuality and religiosity in colonial Mexico / Zeb Tortorici -- Zumbi of Palmares : challenging the Portuguese colonial order / Mary Karasch -- Diego de Ocaña : holy wanderer / Kenneth Mills -- Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala : native writer and litigant in early colonial Peru / Rolena Adorno -- Ana de Vega : seventeenth-century Afro-Mexican healer / Joan Bristol -- Pedro de Ayarza : the purchase of whiteness / Ann Twinam -- Victorina Loza : quiteña merchant in the second half of the eighteenth century / Christiana Borchart de Moreno -- José Antonio da Silva : marriage and concubinage in colonial Brazil / Muriel S. Nazzari -- Juan Barbarín : the 1795 French conspiracy in Buenos Aires / Lyman L. Johnson -- Agustín Agualongo and the royalist cause in the wars of independence / Marcela Echeverri -- Angela Batallas : a fight for freedom in Guayaquil / Camilla Townsend.