The book Malintzin’s Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico, by Camilla Townsend, details the events of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards in the early 16th century. "Townsend organizes her narration of these events around the life and role of Malintzin" (Kellogg). Malintzin, an indigenous woman, who was sold into slavery as a child and eventually given to the Spanish as concubine, managed to make something more out of her life and became a significant figure in Mexican history (Townsend). Malintzin used her multilingual talents to secure a job with the Spanish conquistadors and became invaluable to them as a translator and interpreter, mediating between the Spanish and indigenous worlds (Kellog). Unfortunately for any historian,
