Though their primary intentions must have been to honor their queen and not just her chastity, the fact that they chose to honor her through her by highlighting her chastity, shows how important such things were in that society. We see importance being placed on similar ideas like chastity and polygamy by others during colonization. The New Mexico Franciscans also placed great importance on ideas like chastity and said how “The Franciscan God demanded chastity before and monogamy within marriage.”(84). The natives who had converted and chose to not follow this, were whipped with lashes and that was sometimes followed by a smearing dose of turpentine. It is important to consider that the natives practiced polygamy as part of their culture for ages before the Franciscans came. It wasn’t only the Europeans who placed great importance on the sexuality and its way of practice. A native shaman called Pope cultivated a large following, especially appealing to men outraged at the Franciscan attack on polygamy, “Pope promised each warrior a new wife for every Hispanic he killed.” (89). These examples show how important sexuality was in colonized America. Especially because both groups of people had very different ideas about sex and its meaning, and also its place in
Though their primary intentions must have been to honor their queen and not just her chastity, the fact that they chose to honor her through her by highlighting her chastity, shows how important such things were in that society. We see importance being placed on similar ideas like chastity and polygamy by others during colonization. The New Mexico Franciscans also placed great importance on ideas like chastity and said how “The Franciscan God demanded chastity before and monogamy within marriage.”(84). The natives who had converted and chose to not follow this, were whipped with lashes and that was sometimes followed by a smearing dose of turpentine. It is important to consider that the natives practiced polygamy as part of their culture for ages before the Franciscans came. It wasn’t only the Europeans who placed great importance on the sexuality and its way of practice. A native shaman called Pope cultivated a large following, especially appealing to men outraged at the Franciscan attack on polygamy, “Pope promised each warrior a new wife for every Hispanic he killed.” (89). These examples show how important sexuality was in colonized America. Especially because both groups of people had very different ideas about sex and its meaning, and also its place in