Amputated means to cut off a part of the body, by surgery.
When Shirley Hill Witt talked about amputated hands, feet and heart like Acoma, she is talking about when Malinche was given to Cortez and the Spanish people. Then he found out that she could talk in Myan, her people thought that she was telling the Spanish people their secrets and where their hiding places were.

source: The American Heritage Dictionary
 

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