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In 1944 Sophie Muller, a young American woman, arrived in Vaupés as an independent missionary determined to bring Protestant Christianity to native Americans living along the rivers of Colombia’s Amazon territory. Proselytizing during the turbulent Violencia era and overcoming numerous setbacks, by 1965 she had established two hundred native churches and translated the New Testament gospel into the languages of the Cubeo and Piapoco. Alternately branded as witch, heroic educator, divine missionary, and government opponent, her influence over thousands of natives in Vaupés, Guainía, and Vichada was undisputed for twenty years, but in the decades that followed her effectiveness declined despite the fact that she continued to work in the region until her death in 1995. This essay evaluates Muller’s controversial impact on the indigenous people in Colombia’s eastern territories and examines the factors that contributed to the decline of her influence after 1965.

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