Nahuatl movies

[John F. Schwaller]

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.


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?






John F. Schwaller
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