The story of princess Eréndira's subsequent role as a heroine is based on tradition and may or may not reflect actual events, since there are no contemporary records of her existence.

He succumbed to fear of the Spanish weapons and horses and tried to run from the battlefield, but was captured by Cristobal de Olid, and without a leader the Purépecha warriors were quickly defeated.

In order to capture the Eréndira's father, Tangaxuan, Cristobal de Olid gathered together the Purépecha warriors and lead them into battle, betraying their own people.

With Eréndira gone, her father, the cazonzci, converted to Catholicism and invited a Franciscan friar named Fray Martin to the city.

[3] Cárdenas commissioned muralist Fermín Revueltas to paint murals of Purépecha history and reshape the national narrative from one focused on the Aztecs to one rooted in the indigenous people of Michoacán.

The story of Eréndira was also used to reshape "Mexico's nation-building ideology of mestizaje" and put the "Purépecha past...as the ideal origin of the Mexican nation.