The document profiles the struggles of six indigenous people from the 15th-17th centuries: Diego Vasicuio, a 90-year-old native priest from Peru, was charged with heresy. Martin Oceotl, a priest from Mexico, was imprisoned for predicting the Spanish conquest. Antonio de Gouveia, a priest from Portugal, was accused of superstition and banished for forced labor. Isabel Moctezuma was a daughter of the Aztec emperor who married indigenous and Spanish men after her father's death. Francisca was an indigenous slave in Brazil who unsuccessfully pleaded for freedom with her lover's help.