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Historical person
died 1556
Francisco Tenamaztle was an Indigenous Caxcan leader who became one of the principal commanders of the Mixtón War against Spanish rule in New Galicia. After years of resistance he eventually surrendered, was taken to Spain and argued his case before imperial authorities with support from Bartolomé de las Casas.
In Gary Jennings’s Aztec Autumn, Francisco Tenamaztle, Pedro de Alvarado and Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza connect the narrative to the Caxcan resistance of 1540–42 and the large colonial campaign that suppressed it.
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The Aztec sequence follows Indigenous and mixed-ancestry protagonists through five centuries of Mexican history, from the height of Tenochtitlan to the wars that ended Spanish rule. The first novel gives Mixtli’s account of the empire under Ahuitzotl and Moctezuma II and carries his life into the conquest. Later…
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