Description: After the Broken Spears explores how the Indigenous people of Mexico lived through Spanish conquest and the years that followed in the early sixteenth century. By drawing on original translations of key documents written in Nahuatl, the group of expert contributors demonstrate how contemporary accounts reveal the voices of the people who lived through this tumultuous period and the years of transition. Commentaries by contemporary Indigenous intellectuals and activists relate the ongoing relevance of the conquest in the lives of modern Nahuatl speakers and the Mexican nation today.
