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- The Annals of the Cakchiquels
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Description
The annals were written by a number of native authors including Francisco Hernández Arana Xajilá and Francisco Díaz Gebuta Quej.
Details
Language
en
Duration
~6 hours (360K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by David Starner, Julia Miller, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. This file is gratefully uploaded to the PG collection in honor of Distributed Proofreaders having posted over 10,000 ebooks.
Release date
2007-03-08
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
Francisco Hernández Arana Xajilá
d. 1581
A Kaqchikel Maya nobleman and chronicler, he is best known as one of the authors of the Memorial de Sololá—also called the Annals of the Cakchiquels—a rare Indigenous account that preserves both ancestral tradition and the upheaval of the Spanish conquest.
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