A young Indigenous woman known as La Malinche played a central role in communicating between the Spanish and Indigenous populations of Mexico 500 years ago. The teenager had been gifted to Hernán ...

For centuries she was vilified, her name — Malinche — synonymous with deceit and Indigenous collaboration with Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador for whom she served as interpreter, advisor and ...

A new exhibition asks if the 16th-century Indigenous interpreter was a traitor, survivor or icon Gracie Anderson | Reporter Alfredo Ramos Martínez, La Malinche (Young Girl of Yalala, Oaxaca), 1940 ...

Temptress and turncoat. Mother of a new nation. Chicana heroine. La Malinche has lived many lives in the cultural imagination since her death in the 16th century, as generations of people have ...

Pocahontas had nothing to do with the first Thanksgiving. She died in 1617, four years before the celebration in Plymouth. Neither did Malinche, her Mexican counterpart, who lived in the 1500s. But ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. An Indigenous woman who served as an interpreter and advisor for Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés has long been ...

Once vilified, La Malinche, seen in the statue "Monumento al Mestizaje" at Parque Xicotencatl in Mexico City, is now being recast in a new light. For centuries she was vilified, her name — Malinche — ...