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We people here : Nahuatl accounts of the conquest of Mexico

In an attempt to balance the Spaniards' early accounts of their experiences with Indians in the Americas with the native perspective, this study makes use of Nahuatl tribal documents written in 16th-century Mexico, recording the conquest of the country in the Indians' own words.
Print Book, English, ©1993
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1993
History
xiii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
9780520078758, 0520078756
24703159
Perceptual-Expressive Modes, Group Consciousness, and General View in the Texts
Conventions and Procedures
Particulars About the Texts. 1. Book Twelve of the Florentine Codex. 2. The Annals of Tlatelolco. 3. The Codex Aubin. 4. The Annals of Quauhtitlan. 5. The Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca. 6. Letter from the Council of Huejotzingo, 1560
Texts and Translations. 1. Book Twelve of the Florentine Codex. 2. Extract from the Annals of Tlatelolco. 3. Extract from the Codex Aubin. 4. Fragments from the Annals of Quauhtitlan. 5. Extract from the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca. 6. The Letter from Huejotzingo 1560
Commentary. 1. Book Twelve of the Florentine Codex. 2. Extract from the Annals of Tlatelolco. 3. Extract from the Codex Aubin. 4. Fragments from the Annals of Quauhtitlan. 5. Extract from the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca. 6. The Letter from Huejotzingo, 1560
English and Nahuatl
Includes Bernardino de Sahagún's Spanish version of Book Twelve of the Florentine codex and an English translation thereof
English and Nahuatl