Dona Marina

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"Dona Marina
Dona Marina, the famous mistress and interpreter of Cortes, was born to her father and mother, two rich and powerful chiefs and Caciques of a town called Paynala in the province of Coatzacualco on the southeastern border of the Mexican empire. Paynala had other towns subject to it and stood about eight leagues from the town of Coatzacoalcos in Mexico. It is the purpose of this paper to summarize the events in the life of Dona Marina and to interpret how the lives of Mexican women have been affected by her position in the history of Mexico.

Dona Marina's father died when she was still a small child, and her mother remarried another Cacique, a young man, and bore this man a son. The mother and stepfather had great affection for the little son, and it was agreed between them that he should.."

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