Annals of Native America

For many generations, the Nahuas of Mexico maintained their tradition of the xiuhpohualli. or "e;year counts,"e; telling and performing their history around communal firesides so that the memory of it would not be lost. When the Spaniards came, young Nahuas took the Roman letters taught to them by the friars and used the new alphabet to record historical performances by elders. Between them, they ...