The inhabitants resisted conversion to the Christian faith, sometimes violently.
As the Tutsi resisted conversion, the missionaries found success only among the Hutu.
At the time, it was believed that Native Americans resisted conquest and conversion for one of two reasons: malice or ignorance.
Those Protestants who had resisted conversion were now to be baptised forcibly into the established church.
Some of the population resisted conversion for many years, particularly the nomadic Fulbe herders.
Most Hopi in the other villages continued to resist conversion, wanting to maintain their own ways.
The marabout party was opposed by the established leaders of the region, who were resisting conversion to Islam.
Other tribes, who still resisted conversion, were banished or put to the sword.
Some states have decided to resist conversion at all.
This is one of the tribes which resisted Muslim conversion and maintained a highland animistic culture.
