It has been easy to blame Malintzin. She doesn’t own her own story, so people can see whatever they want in her. An 18-year-old girl shoulders the blame and the shame.
Over the centuries, for political and nation-building reasons, people fashioned Malintzin into a diabolical schemer on par with Eve. Give a woman power and this is what happens.20 women awarded to Hernando Cortés in 1519.
Within the original group of 20 women awarded to Cortés, one woman about 18 years of age, was not silent. Thrust into serving as Cortés’s and Moctezuma’s interpreter, she has been called . Historians dispute her name, her birthplace , the year of her birth and of her death. Malintzin’s ability to speak and understand Nahuatl, Maya and Spanish was inspirational as I saw her as a commanding, respected, confident woman bridging worlds. Her voice rose above men’s words.
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