Learning the Landscape: The O'odham Acclimation of Father Agustín de Campos

[...]expected to learn and use the Pima language for instructing their O'odham converts, they also would have been encouraged to identify ethical and religious similarities between the O'odham world they encountered and Christianity, and to conserve and integrate whatever lifeways, ceremonies, and traditions they deemed conducive to achieving their evangelistic goal. Like most Europeans, they held a dichotomized worldview that valued "civilization" over "savagery" (Pavao-Zuckerman 2011:229; Weber 2005:39), associating civilization with Christianity, order, and morality-qualities evinced by permanent residence in towns and villages, and by the cultivation of domesticated crops and animals on landscapes shaped through these human activities.