hat language and culture were
             inseparable; initially, the Spaniards believed that Castilian Spanish was
             the only way to transmit Catholicism, so that a major objective of colonial
             policy became instructing the natives in Spanish and religion (Fitch,
             2003). La Rosa suggested that in spite of Spanish efforts to force all of
             the indigenous Americans to speak Spanish, many priests found it in their
             interests to learn the multiple languages spoken in the region, as if the
             priests understood the local languages, it was argued, they would be better
             able to root out native religious heresies (Fitch, 2003).
             The Spaniards initially insisted on forcing the indigenous populations
             to speak Spanish, a policy that was wholly unsuccessful (Fitch, 2003). At
             the same time, as we have seen, priests,
             ...