Camilla Townsend

About The Author

Camilla Townsend is associate professor of history at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is the author of Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma and Tales of Two Cities.

Books by Camilla Townsend

Malintzin's Choices

An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico

By Camilla Townsend
Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cortés in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521. Malintzin, at least, was what the Indians called her. The Spanish called her doña Marina, and she has become known to posterity as La Malinche. As Ma...
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