New approaches to Mesoamerican history and materiality at the conquest’s quincentenary mean the time is ripe for a new touchstone analysis of this document that emphasizes specificity, locality, and continuity rather than rupture driven by European invasion. The very form of the tira suggests continuity rather than rupture in the course of European colonization and evangelization. Little studied since the 1920s when acquired by the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation, it is a completely Nahua document with older pictographic text as well as Nahuatl written in Latin characters. A document concerning migration, altepetl (polity) foundation, and rulership, it provided a living record of Nahua chronology from 1402 to 1545, through the arrival of Europeans on horseback, the conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521, and the foundation of a local Christian church.

Now that Don is adding fiction to his non-fiction works, he feels that we could all work together.This article follows the history of the Tira of don Martín, also known as the Codex Saville, from its creation to its preservation in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. He has some small, imaginary friends who know that if you have read this far in this bio, you are possibly the one who needs some help. He has now expanded his company from Nashville to Knoxville, Memphis, and Chattanooga, becoming a state-wide resource for independent home-sellers. He maintains a listing mega-inventory of between 50 and 100 homes at any given time, and works with a very limited number of buyers. He operates Martin Properties as a 'Graduated Real Estate Services' company helping people at varying levels to sell their home. He has taught marketing, sales, and contract writing, and is also currently involved with writing and speaking. Since 1985, he has spent more than 30 years marketing fine homes with his own real estate company. But the years from 1970 until 1985 found him marketing and servicing fine German, British, and Italian sports cars. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Don Martin always enjoyed music, audio, and electronics, so he spent a great deal of his time in Nashville, TN working with recording studios and radio stations during and just after his Vanderbilt University days.

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