Daughters of the Fifth Sun

Daughters of the Fifth Sun PDF Author: Bryce Milligan
Publisher: Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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"Without question, some of the most interesting writing of the last decade has come from the Latina literary movimiento. Daughters of the Fifth Sun is an informed and inspiring collection of short fiction and poetry that displays the breadth and achievement of celebrated Latina authors while introducing the next generation of voices, be they Chicana, Cubana, Puertorriquena, Dominican, or U.S.-born Latinas."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Daughters of the Fifth Sun

Daughters of the Fifth Sun PDF Author: Bryce Milligan
Publisher: Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Book Description
"Without question, some of the most interesting writing of the last decade has come from the Latina literary movimiento. Daughters of the Fifth Sun is an informed and inspiring collection of short fiction and poetry that displays the breadth and achievement of celebrated Latina authors while introducing the next generation of voices, be they Chicana, Cubana, Puertorriquena, Dominican, or U.S.-born Latinas."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Fifth Sun

Fifth Sun PDF Author: Camilla Townsend
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190673060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337

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Fifth Sun offers a comprehensive history of the Aztecs, spanning the period before conquest to a century after the conquest, based on rarely-used Nahuatl-language sources written by the indigenous people.

Birth of the Fifth Sun

Birth of the Fifth Sun PDF Author: Jo Harper
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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"A retelling of traditional folk tales that originate from Mexico and Central America. They reflect the pre-Colombian, Mesoamerican worldview, and include characters like Quetzalcoatl and trickster figures like coyote. A few of the tales are contemporary and seem to originate from Nahuatl-speaking descendants of the Aztecs"--Provided by publisher.

Malinalli of the Fifth Sun

Malinalli of the Fifth Sun PDF Author: Helen Heightsman Gordon
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462064930
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 674

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The words of her father echo in a young girl's head: Never want what you can never have. Born on the day of the Mexican Goddess of Grass, Malinalli, she takes that name until 1519 when she begins her new Christian life as Marina, one of twenty slaves given to Conquistador Hernán Cortés after he defeats the natives of Tabasco. Having been sold into slavery by a wicked stepfather, Malinalli has learned Mayan as well as her native tongue Nahuatl. When Cortés discovers she can speak two languages, he makes her his interpreter and keeps her constantly at his side. His soldiers admire her and give her the respectful title of Don?a Marina (Lady Marina). Later, as she learns Spanish and becomes trilingual, she helps Cortés form alliances among Nahuatl speakers who hate Moctezuma II, a tyrant who has waged wars on neighboring tribes to obtain captives for human sacrifice. Cortés and his coalition of Spanish conquistadors and Tlaxcalan warriors lead a fierce attack upon the Aztec empire, conquer Moctezuma II, and thus change the fate of Mexico and Spain forever. Although Cortés comes to love Marina, and she brings out his best qualities, he allows her to marry a hidalgo lover for her future protection. Yet Cortés and Malinalli (also called La Malinche) become a team that rebuilds a devastated nation, shapes its Christian destiny, and leaves a proud legacy for two nations that enriched each other even as they tried to destroy each other.

Handbook to Life in the Aztec World

Handbook to Life in the Aztec World PDF Author: Manuel Aguilar-Moreno
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195330838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Book Description
Describes daily life in the Aztec world, including coverage of geography, foods, trades, arts, games, wars, political systems, class structure, religious practices, trading networks, writings, architecture and science.

How Music Came to the World

How Music Came to the World PDF Author: Hal Ober
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395675236
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Retells a Mexican legend in which the sky god and the wind god bring music from Sun's house to the Earth.

Angel with the Sword

Angel with the Sword PDF Author: C. J. Cherryh
Publisher: [New York] : Daw Books
ISBN: 9780886771430
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Iep Jaltok

Iep Jaltok PDF Author: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816534020
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 91

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"Iep jāltok is a collection of poetry by a young Marshallese woman highlighting the traumas of her people through colonialism, racism, forced migration, the legacy of nuclear testing by America, and the impending threats of climate change"--Provided by publisher.

Annals of Native America

Annals of Native America PDF Author: Camilla Townsend
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190628995
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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Book Description
Old stories in new letters (1520s-1550s) -- Becoming conquered (the 1560s) -- Forging friendship with Franciscans (1560s-1580s) -- The riches of twilight (circa 1600) -- Renaissance in the East (the seventeenth century) -- Epilogue: Postscript from a golden age -- Appendices -- The texts in Nahuatl -- Historia Tolteca Chichimeca -- Annals of Tlatelolco -- Annals of Juan Bautista -- Annals of Tecamachalco -- Annals of Cuauhtitlan -- Chimalpahin, seventh relation -- Don Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza

Daughter of the Fifth Moon

Daughter of the Fifth Moon PDF Author: Lynn Sholes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692535493
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Ages ago, in the tropical Caribbean before the arrival of Columbus, a young child lost all she knew and loved . . . but through unbreakable courage, she forged a new life. Nyna is awakened in the blackness of night to find her peaceful Taino village under attack by the savage Caribs. In a frantic effort to save Nyna, her parents shove her out to sea in an empty enemy dugout, hoping the current and wind will bring her to rest on another Taino island. Nyna witnesses the massacre of her mother and her father as they heroically sacrifice their lives to save her. For days she drifts beneath the searing sun, huddled and alone in the piragua. She awakens to find the dugout aground on a beautiful white beach. But this is not the beach her parents had hoped for. She is amongst a strange people who will never accept her. Nyna is not like anyone they have ever seen before. On her small wrist she wears a bracelet so brilliant some believed it was made from the sun. Many believe that she is evil and should be outcast. Yet, Joog sees Nyna as a gentle girl who is frightened and desperate. He becomes her protector and friend, and when she is finds herself trapped by terrible danger, Joog and his love for her is the only thing that can save her.