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Relationships between native women and European men played a key role in the formative years of the colonial societies in São Paulo (Brazil) and Asunción (Paraguay) during the sixteenth century. This talk analyses this period with a focus on native women. It addresses how the social changes, triggered by the contacts with Europeans, impacted their lives in different ways. In doing so, the talk aims to retell an old history from a new perspective.