A survey of Guatemalan narratives throughout history.

1. Narratives of Conquest in Guatemala Renae Mitchell | December 2010 From Lienzo de Tlaxcala (Glasgow ms. 1585)

2. from Rhetorica Christiana , 1579

3. Conquista de Tenochtitlán por Cortés Latter 17 th century

4. ''Placing the Emperor in irons, Cortez caused seventeen of the men who had made the attack to be burned to death in front of the palace. Then Montezuma was compelled to acknowledge himself and his subjects vassals of Charles V., and Cortez forced the fallen monarch to give him gold to the value of $10,000.''

5. ''Conquest of Mexico: Hernando Cortes destroying his fleet at Vera Cruz 1519' Nicholas Eustache Maurin

6. ''Conquest of Mexico: Hernando Cortes Opposed to Human Sacrifice” Nicholas Eustache Maurin

7. 'L'armada de Cortès, partie de Cuba le 10 février, aborde sur la côte de Tabasco.'' The Conquest of Mexico:Visit of Hernando Cortes (1485-1547) to Montezuma (1466-1520) in 1520

8. Conquista de Tenochtitlán por Cortés Latter 17 th century

9. Madrid Codex 16 th century (or 17 th ?)

10. Lienzo de Quauhquechollan 16 th century (circa 1530)

11. Annals of the Cakchiquels Original, late 16 th century

12. From Dresden Codex pre-Colombian

13. Rigoberta Menchú

14. Newly discovered Maya mural at San Bartolo, Guatemala — the earliest known Maya painting, depicting the birth of the cosmos and the divine right of a king

15. Lienzo de Quauhquechollan 16 th century (circa 1530)

16. Lienzo de Tlaxcala 16 th century (circa 1560)

17. Lienzo de Analco 16 th century (circa xxx)

18. Ciudad Vieja, colonial capital of Guatemala San Martín Huaquechula, formerly Quauquechollan Ciudad Vieja, colonial capital of Guatemala

19. Lienzo de Quauhquechollan— Beginning of narrative, when Jorge de Alvarado leads his army of Spanish and Nahua conquistadores out of Quauquechollan

20. Lienzo de Quauhquechollan — Many battles are portrayed in the Lienzo, and in all of them we see the Quauquechollans fighting side-by-side with the Spaniards.

21. Annals of the Cakchiquels Original, late 16 th century

22. Plan de Iximché, “R ecordación Florida” — by Fuentes y Guzmán. Iximché Sololá

23. Annals of the Cakchiquels Original, late 16 th century

24. Annals of the Kakchikels-- Xajil Chronicle . Original, late 16 th century

25. Guatemalan flag —Independence from Spain, 1821

26. Maya oral narratives—from vase painting of elderly god instructing scribes (c. 12 th cent)

27. Rafael Alfarez Ovalle —author of Guatemala Himno nacional Kakchikel or ladino?

28. Guatemalan Civil War —1960-1996

29. Rigoberta Menchú

30. Currency based on indigenous imagery: Guatemala : Tecún Umán Honduras : Lempira

31. Lempira Day, based on indigenous imagery (and Pedro de Alvarado)

32. Narratives of Conquest and Domination Independence Holiday, based on indigenous imagery