We People Here
Book description
Historians are concerned today that the Spaniards' early accounts of their first experiences with the Indians in the Americas should be balanced with accounts from the Indian perspective. 'We People Here' reflects that concern, bringing together important and revealing documents written in the Nahuatl language in sixteenth-century Mexico. James Lockhart's…
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1 author picked We People Here as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
There are several books purporting to contain Nahuatl (or Aztec language) accounts of the conquest of Mexico.
This one by a late great scholar from UCLA is by far the best. His helpful introduction sets the scene, and the careful translations bring us right into the center of the action. The Spaniards may have thought they were impressing the Indians, but in this account by the Indians, we learn that they were sometimes laughing at the Europeans!
From Camilla's list on the Aztecs by people who once knew an Aztec.
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