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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=ES-MX link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dear Ben:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I haven’t seen any examples of what you mention in Nahuatl. The constitution of 1857 was translated into Nahuatl and printed in 1888, although this is outside of the time frame you’re asking about. Here’s a transcription of the title page:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>“CONSTITUCION FEDERAL / DE LOS / ESTADOS UNIDOS MEXICANOS, / CON SUS ADICIONES / Y REFORMAS, / TRADUCIDA AL IDIOMA AZTECA Ó MEXICANO / POR / MIGUEL T. PALMA. / Catedrático de Latinidad en el Colegio del Estado, Profesor de Idioma azteca en las / Escuelas Normales, Miembro de la Sociedad de Geografía y Estadística, / y de la Compañía Lancasteriana de México, y Socio de otras corporaciones científicas / del Estado. / ___ . ___ / PUEBLA. / __ / IMPRENTA DEL HOSPICIO / __ / 1888”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m looking at the facsimile edition published by the Instituto de Estudios Constitucionales, Gobierno del Estado de Querétaro, 1994.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Getting back to the colonial period (but still without a direct answer to your question), there is an article summarizing official linguistic policies in New Spain, which provides some context for this matter, here:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.dinpo.ugto.mx/acta/publicaciones/v17-3/actav17n3.htm">http://www.dinpo.ugto.mx/acta/publicaciones/v17-3/actav17n3.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Saludos,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>De:</span></b><span lang=ES style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> nahuatl-bounces@lists.famsi.org [mailto:nahuatl-bounces@lists.famsi.org] <b>En nombre de </b>Ben Leeming<br><b>Enviado el:</b> jueves, 07 de abril de 2011 15:30<br><b>Para:</b> nahuatl@lists.famsi.org<br><b>Asunto:</b> [Nahuat-l] indigenous rights<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>piyali listeros,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone out there have any knowledge of whether or not Las Casas and the discourse of "indigenous rights" ever found expression in Nahuatl-language source materials? For example, were the New Laws, papal bulls, or other royal documents related to the rights debate ever translated into Nahuatl? I'm guessing not...<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>tlazohcamati,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Ben<br clear=all><br>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Ben Leeming<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>PhD Student<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Department of Anthropology<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>University at Albany, SUNY<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>