2. Gaspar Antonio Chi was born in 1530 in the
area called Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
The year of his birth, his birthplace Yucatan
was virtually free of Spaniards and by the
time he was five, there was not a Spaniards
near his hometown of Mali.
His Father, Ah Kulel Chi, was the priest and
nobleman and Ix Kukil Xiu is his mother.

3. He was raised from childhood by the lord
bishop don Diego de Landa.
His father was murdered when he was six.
He was the town’s schoolmaster and
choirmaster. And he new grammar
reasonably well.
In 1557 he served as interpreter and chief
notary to the Spanish judge.
The 1557 treaty contains the first example of
Chi’s signature.

4. From the mid-1500s to the late-1570s, Chi
pursued a career outside of Merida and the
immediate circle of the Franciscans.
 He became a father in 1561 and had married
not long before.
In 1565, instead of working for Toral or Landa,
he took up a post as choirmaster and school
teacher in a Maya community.
In 1572 he moved back into the center of
things, but still very much within the Maya
world.

5.  Chi sent a petition to the king of Spain in 1580 and
1593. The king granted him lump-sum payments
of 200 pesos in 1593 and in 1599.
 During the long final decades of his career he lived
and worked as a notary in Merida, holding the post
of the colony's Interpreter.
 His great-grandson was born in the year of his
death.
 Chi recorded on paper the damning testimony
about and official condemnation of-don Pedro’s
rival, don Fernando Uz, and his allies.