Totlajtol is a digital repository assembled by researchers at the Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades (CUCSH) that makes available around 70 colonial-era documents written in Nahuatl dated 1557-1782 from present-day Nayarit, Zacatecas, Jalisco, Colima and Michoacán. The collection includes complaints, transfers of power, petitions, wills, land measurements, allocations and electoral testimonies, many penned by indigenous scribes (amatlacuilos) and several by female scribes (cihuatlamatlacuilos). Notable items include a 1717 Tlajomulco will by Agustina Sebastiana that preserves everyday speech, and records of salt and cocoa trade and port relations with Manzanillo and Barra de Navidad. The presence of five women’s wills provides concrete evidence of female property ownership in western Mexico during the colonial period.
Researchers Rosa Yáñez Rosales, Álvaro Torres Nila, Cynthia Meza Romero and Miroslava Pineda Rodríguez present the repository as both an archival rescue and a research tool that illuminates daily life, economy and legal practices from Nahua perspectives. Totlajtol is offered as a free, organized online resource aligned with an international 2022-2032 initiative for indigenous language preservation and revitalization, aiming to strengthen links between oral and written traditions and to stimulate scholarly and community engagement with Nahuatl documentary heritage.
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