Nahuatl movies

[David Becraft]

At 08:26 10/04/2006, you wrote:

"Nothing else about the movie is historically accurate.  Why should a 
Nahuatl speaker be?"


You are correct indeed about the movie, its a work of fiction; and the 
Hollywood Director and Producer probably can't distinguish a Paiute from a 
Mayo, let alone their different dialects or any  Indigenous Californian 
Languages.
I think for the sake of historical accuracy though, nahuatl speakers should 
not be considered historically inaccurate in 1800's California.  There is 
enough Documentary evidence to show Nahuatl and even Otomi speakers in 
California during that time, before and after too.
Take the word "Chicano", obviously a combination of Spanish and Nahuatl, yet 
purely a Californian word that can be attributed to the "Meshica" 
farmworkers who worked alonside the Spanish speaking farmworkers.  /meshica/ 
+ /-ano/ - /me/ + /chi/ - /shi/= chicano

Tlashtlawi,

Pancho








>From: "John F. Schwaller" <schwallr at potsdam.edu>
>To: nahuatl at lists.famsi.org
>Subject: RE: [Nahuat-l] Nahuatl movies
>Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:26:04 -0400
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>At 02:12 AM 10/4/2006, you wrote:
>>Some traditions also have Nahuas traveling and having nahuatl placenames 
>>like Seattle (Ce-Atl), and Michigan (Michican) among many.  Could this 
>>explain why the nanny was speaking nahuatl in California...possibly.
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>I think it is far easier to imagine that a Hollywood director did not know 
>one native language from another and placed a Nahuatl speaker in "The Mask 
>of Zorro" than to imagine that the movie was faithfully representing the 
>ethnic mixture of California at the time the events supposedly took place.  
>Hey folks, this is fiction!!!!  Nothing else about the movie is 
>historically accurate.  Why should a Nahuatl speaker be?
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>John F. Schwaller
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