Self-governing tribes, groups that lived off their own resources, with no sense of economic utility or interest; with no political unity, lacking any concept of the state and clinging to a superstitious religion that had no relationship to morality, they were collectively unable to resist the warlike onslaught of the conquistadors and missionaries.
Tribus de carácter autárquico, grupos que vivían de sus propios recursos, sin sentido de la utilidad económica o el interés; sin unidad política, carentes del concepto de Estado y apegados a una religión supersticiosa, sin relación con la moral, no pudieron resistir colectivamente el empuje bélico del conquistador y del misionero.