Brazil provides a unique schism between two non-indigenous Hegemonic groups, the Catholic Church and Portuguese nobility, each with a single individual in the position of authority and challenging each other for absolute control; nobles fearing this loss of authority deported the Jesuits to regain control. The Portuguese Jesuits and nobles followed the guidance of their superior, each group looking to extract the resources of the individual’s soul or the treasures of the land through the individual. To the Indians, the compassion shown by the Jesuits versus the brutality of the colonial business nobles, demonstrated the church like the Indians was subordinate to the nobles and could be manipulated for the benefit of commerce. The white elites
