The literatures of colonial America: an anthology

Exploration and contact to 1600 Before Columbus: Native American cultures The Pre-Columbian world The origin myth of Acoma... The Winnebago trickster cycle The origin of stories (Seneca) Pre-Columbian literatures of the Quiche Anonymous Quiche author (sixteenth century): Popol Vuh Excerpts from the Mayan Chilam Balam New World encounters from The letter of Columbus on the discovery of America / Christopher Columbus The history of the Indies / Bartolome de Las Casas from Book I, Chapter XXXVII: On the natural law of God in His world / Bartolome de Las Casas Book I, Chapter XL: Of the island which lay before them, and its people / Bartolome de Las Casas from Book III, Chapter LXXVIII: Of the labors of the Indians in Cuba / Bartolome de Las Casas from The letter of Perio Vaz de Caminha to King Manuel I, May 1, 1500 / Pero Vaz de Caminha from The voyage of Verrazzano, Florentine Noble in the service of Francois I, King of France, 1524 / Giovanni da Verrazzano from Chapter 12: The Indians bring us food / Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca from Chapter 15: What befell us among the people of Mahado / Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca from Chapter 22: The coming of other sick to us the next day / Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca History of the conquest of New Spain / Bernal Diaz del Castillo from Chapter 37: Of how Dona Marina was a great lady and daughter of great lords, and mistress over towns and vassals, and how she was brought to Tabasco / Bernal Diaz del Castillo from Chapter 88: Of the great and solemn Montezuma's great and solemn reception of Cortes and of all of us on our entrance into Mexico / Bernal Diaz del Castillo from Chapter 89: Of how Montezuma came to our quarters with many chieftains, and the conversation he had with our Captain from Chapter 90: Of how soon thereafter our Captain went to see the great Montezuma, and of certain conversations they had / Bernal Diaz del Castillo Chapter 91: Of the manner and appearance of Montezuma from Chapter 93: Of how we made our Church and altar in our quarters, and a cross outside our quarters, and other events, and of how we found the antechamber and chamber where Montezuma's father's treasure is kept, and how it was agreed that Montezuma should be detained / Bernal Diaz del Castillo from Chapter 95: Montezuma's arrest from Chapter 97: Of how when Montezuma was held prisoner, Cortes and all of our soldiers treated him with affection, and even allowed him to go to his temples / Bernal Diaz del Castillo from Chapter 107: Of cortes and Montezuma from Chapter 150: The Siege of Mexico / Bernal Diaz del Castillo from Chapter 152: Of how the Indians took seventy-two live prisoners to be sacrificed / Bernal Diaz del Castillo from Chapter 156: Guatemoc's arrest / Bernal Diaz del Castillo Native views of the conquest of Mexico The omens described by Munoz Camargo A Macehual arrives from the Gulf Coast The story of the conquest as told by the anonymous authors of Tlatelolco The arrival of Cortes Teh massacre in the Main Temple The night of sorrows The Spaniards return The Tlatelolcas are invited to make a treaty The fighting is renewed Epic description of the beseiged city The message from Cortes The city falls The people flee the city The fall of Tenochtitlan Flowers and songs of sorrow

from Account of things in Yucatan / Diego de Landa XV: Cruelties of the Spaniards toward the Indians / Diego de Landa XLI: Cycle of the Mayas. Their writing / Diego de Landa LII: Conclusion / Diego de Landa from The true history of his captivity, 1557 / Hans Staden from Part I: The true history and description of a country of savages, a naked and terrible people, eaters of man's flesh, who dwell in the New World called America...: Chapter 1; from Chapter XVIII; Chapter XXII; Chapter XXIII; Chapter XXIV; from Chapter XLII; from Chapter XLIII / Hans Staden from Part II: A true and brief account of all that I learnt concerning the trade and manners of the Tuppin Inbas, whose captive I was / Hans Staden Chapter XXIII: How they turn the women into soothsayers / Hans Staden from Chapter XXV: Why one enemy eats another / Hans Staden Chapter XXVIII: Of their manner of killing and eating their enemies. Of the instrument with which they kill them and the rites which follow / Hans Staden from The concluding address / Hans Staden Dialogue for the Conversion of the Indians / Manuel Da Nobrega from A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia / Thomas Harriot from The first part of merchantable commodities / Thomas Harriot Of the nature and manners of the people / Thomas Harriot from Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618 / Samuel de Champlain The voyages of 1604-7 / Samuel de Champlain New World identities: exploration and settlement to 1700 New Spain from The Florida of the Inca / El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega The Inca's dedication / El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega The Inca's preface / El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega from A letter to a King / Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala Royal administrators / Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala At Wayside Inns / Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala Spaniards / Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala Proprietors / Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala The fathers / Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala Negroes / Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala The King's questions / Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala History of New Mexico / Gaspar Perez de Villagra from Canto I: Which sets forth the outine of the history and the location of New Mexico, and the reports had of it in the traditions of the Indians, and of the true origin and descent of the Mexicans / Gaspar Perez de Villagra Canto XXI: How Zutacapan called an assembly of the Acoma Indians and the discord there was among them, and of the treason they made / Gaspar Perez de Villagra from Canto XXXIII: How Zutancalpo was found by his four sisters and of the end and death of Gicombo and Luzcoija / Gaspar Perez de Villagra The happy captivity / Francisco Nunez de Pineda y Bascunan from Book I, Chapter IX: The beginning of the captivity / Francisco Nunez de Pineda y Bascunan Book III, Chapter XXXI: a feast / Francisco Nunez de Pineda y Bascunan The misadventures of Alonso Ramirez / Carlos Siguenza y Gongora from Chapter I: The motives he had for leaving his country. Work and travel through New Spain: his presence in Mexico until leaving for the Philippines / Carlos Siguenza y Gongora from Chapter II: His departure from Acapulco for the Philippines; the route of this voyage and how he passed the time until captured by the English / Carlos Siguenza y Gongora from Chapter III: A brief summary of the thievery and cruelty of these pirates on land and sea until arriving in America / Carlos Siguenza y Gongora Number 48: In reply to a gentleman from Peru, who sent her clay vessels while suggesting she would better be a man / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Number 92: A philosophical satire / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Number 94: Which reveals the honorable ancestry of a high-born drunkard / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Number 145: She attempts to minimize the praise occasioned by a portrait of herself inscribed by truth, which she calls ardor / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Number 146: She laments her fortune, she hints of her aversion to all vice, and justifies her diversion with the muses / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Number 317: Villancico VI, from "Santa Catarina" / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Number 367: Loa for the Auto sacramental The Divine Narcissus through allegories / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz History of the miraculous apparition / The Miraculous Apparition of the Beloved Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe, at Tepeyacac, near Mexico City A Nahuatl song to Holy Mary / The Miraculous Apparition of the Beloved Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe, at Tepeyacac, near Mexico City Records of the Spanish Inquisition, New Mexico, 1664 Excerpts from the trial of Bernardo de Mendizabal Letter on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 / Don Antonio de Otermin