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The
Huexotzinco Codex or
Huejotzingo Codex is an eight-sheet document on
amatl, a pre-European paper made in
Mesoamerica. It is part of the testimony in a legal case against representatives of the colonial government in
Mexico, ten years after the Spanish conquest in
1521.
Huexotzinco (Way-hoat-ZINC-o) is a town southeast of
Mexico City, in the state of
Puebla. In 1521, the
Nahua Indian people of the town were the allies of the Spanish conqueror
Hernán Cortés, and together they confronted their enemies to overcome
Moctezuma, leader of the
Aztec Empire.
After the conquest, the Huexotzinco peoples became part of Cortés's estates. While Cortés was out of the country from
1529 to
1530, Spanish colonial administrators intervened in the daily activities of the community and forced the Nahuas to pay excessive
taxes in the form of goods and services. When Cortés returned, the Nahuas joined him in a legal case against the abuses of the Spanish administrators.
The plaintiffs were successful in their suit in Mexico, and later when it was retried in Spain. The record shows [ina document uncovered in the collections of the Library of Congress] that in
1538,
Charles I of Spain agreed with the judgement against the Spanish administrators and ruled that two-thirds of all tributes taken from the people of Huexotzinco be returned.
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