Aztecs (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Inga Clendinnen
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Historical anthropology
- Time of Work: The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
- Setting: The Aztec empire in pre-Conquest Mexico
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Anthropology
- Subjects: Culture, Rape, Native Americans or American Indians, Reality, Bilingualism, Morality or morals, Sacrifice
- Locales: Mexico
Dee Brown records the following tale about a Native American from a Northwest tribe in an encounter with a pioneer woman: “He and a small band visited a tent camp, and seeing bright-colored quilts and shiny utensils all about and no one near but a few ‘white squaws,’ he decided to help himself. One of the ‘white squaws,’ however, began defending her possessions with a heavy tent pole. ‘She laid it about, right and left, over heads, shoulders, and backs until she put them to flight.’ Next day the warrior returned, apologized for his conduct, and offered the woman’s...
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