Posted by RickFeliz on April 22, 2001 at 00:53:47:
In Reply to: Re: "hijo de puta" (son of a whore) Tu Abuela! posted by reytj on April 20, 2001 at 16:31:11:
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reytj, How about cooling it a little and being a little more helpful. Instead of just blasting and criticizing, how about some useful suggestions, interesting information, recommendations for good books, etc. My information was from a book titled something like Women of Mexico that I browsed in the Barnes & Noble bookstore in Del Mar. The thrust of the section on Dona Marina was a discussion of whether she was the mother of Mexico or a betrayer of her people because she assisted the conqueror. I did a quick search on Google and came up with this. It appears to be a sanitized schoolbook version of history. Dona Marina. Was a little known woman, but she did a great thing. She saved thousands of Indian lives by convincing Cortes to negotiate with them rather then to slaughter and kill. She became many different things in her life: slave, interpreter, personal advisor (unofficial wife) to Cortes, and mother of the first Mexican. It may seem awesome to have been her, and there were some pretty exciting moments in her life. But most of her life was hard and strenuous, and didn't sound very loving.. You may be wondering, ì How could she have been the mother of the first known Mexican? Read or listen on, to learn the answer. Dona Marina came from a noble Aztec family. After the death of her father, the chief, her mother remarried, and had a son whom Donna's mother thought should be chief instead of little Dona, though Dona was the firstborn. For that reason, apparently, she traded her young daughter to some passing traders, and claimed to those around her that Dona had died.. Eventually, Dona Marina wound up as a slave of Cacique of Tabasco. He was the five star general of Tabasco. When Dona was with Cacique, She learned the Mayan dialects used in the Yucatan, in addition to her own Aztec language, Nahuatl. She also learned the language of most of the non-Mayan Indians. Dona Marina, and 19 other women were sold as slaves to Cortes. Dona did not speak (let alone agree) to this. Cortes figured out Dona knew all these languages, and soon relied on Dona Marina as his interpreter. They became very close and her opinion was respected by Cortes. It was she who was able to negotiate rather than slaughter. She was very valuable to the spreading of Christianity because of her language skills She translated the words of the priests. Her name evolved because Cortes and her were in love, and Cortes's nick name was, Malinche, meaning Captain. La Malice means captain's women. They had a son, Don Mahin Cortes. Don Mahin was the first child born of a Spaniard and an Aztec Indian. Thus he was the first Mexican.
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