A HOMAGE TO THE MAYAN PEOPLES #2
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- Duration: 9:53
- Published: 13 Oct 2010
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- Author: felixrazon
Montage by E. San Juan, Jr.
Maya Peoples
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Achi people
The Achi are a Maya people in Guatemala. Their indigenous language is also called Achi and is closely related to K'iche'.
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Ah Ahaual
Ah-Ahaual is the name of a 7th-century captive of noble lineage recorded in pre-Columbian Maya inscriptions. The particular Maya civilization polity or city-state he came from is presently unidentified. According to inscriptions at the Maya site of Yaxchilan, Ah-Ahaual was captured by the Yaxchilan's ruler known as Shield Jaguar in the year 680. Shield Jaguar was asked by the lords of Yaxchilan to take an important official captive before he could become ruler and chose to take Ah-Ahaual. Ah-Ahaual was most likely killed in the same year at Yaxchilan. He is mentioned on Lintel 24 found on Structure 23 in Yaxchilan.
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Akatek people
The Akatek (Akateko) are a Maya people in Guatemala. Their indigenous language, which is also called Akatek, belongs to the Q'anjobalan branch of Mayan languages. Most Akatek live in San Miguel Acatán and San Rafael La Independencia, in the department of Huehuetenango.
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Armando Manzanero
Armando Manzanero Canché (born in Mérida, Mexico on December 7, 1935) is a Mexican musician and composer of Maya descent, widely considered the premiere Mexican romantic composer of the postwar era. One of the most successful composers of Latin America.
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Caste War of Yucatán
The Caste War of Yucatán (1847–1901) began with the revolt of native Maya people of Yucatán, Mexico against the population of European descent called Yucatecos, who had political and economic control. A lengthy war ensued between the Yucateco forces in the north-west of the Yucatán and the independent Maya in the south-east. It officially ended with the occupation of the Maya capital of Chan Santa Cruz by the Mexican army in 1901, although skirmishes with villages and small settlements that refused to acknowledge Mexican control continued for over another decade.
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Ch'ol people
'''Ch'ol''' are an indigenous people of southeastern Mexico, mainly located in the northern Chiapas highlands in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. As one of the Maya peoples, their indigenous language is from the Mayan language family, known also as Ch'ol. According to the 2000 Census, there were 140,806 speakers of Ch'ol in Chiapas, including 40,000 who were monolingual.
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Ch'orti' people
The '''Ch'orti' people' (alternatively, Ch'orti' Maya or Chorti'') are one of the indigenous Maya peoples, who primarily reside in communities and towns of southeastern Guatemala, northwestern Honduras, and northern El Salvador. Their indigenous language, also known as Ch'orti', is a survival of Classic Choltian, the language of the inscriptions in Copan. It is the first language of approximately 15,000 people, although the majority of present-day Ch'orti' speakers are bilingual in Spanish as well.
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Chan Santa Cruz
Chan Santa Cruz or U Noh Kah Balam Nah Chan Santa Cruz is the Maya town now known as Felipe Carrillo Puerto in what is now the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. This name is often assigned to the Maya free state ruled from Chan Santa Cruz for much of the second half of the 19th century. Nonetheless, indigenous documentation including the 'Proclamation' of The State of The Cross and copious correspondence on behalf of this same state give its indigenous name as Juan, (Huaan), de la Cruz, 'The State of The Cross'.
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Chontal Maya people
The Chontal Maya are an indigenous people of the Mexican state of Tabasco. "Chontal", from the Nahuatl word for chontalli, which means "foreigner", has been applied to various different ethnic groups in Mexico. The Chontal refer to themselves as the '''Yokot'anob or the Yokot'an', meaning "the speakers of Yoko ochoco", but writers about them refer to them as the Chontal of Centla, the Tabasco Chontal, or in Spanish, Chontales''. They consider themselves the descendants of the Olmecs, and are not related to the Oaxacan Chontal.
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Chuj people
The Chuj are a Maya people in Guatemala and Mexico. Their indigenous language is also called Chuj and belongs to the Q'anjobalan-Chujean family of Mayan languages. In Guatemala, most Chuj live in the department of Huehuetenango in the municipalities of San Mateo Ixtatán and San Sebastián Coatán.
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Comandante Ramona
Comandante (Spanish: "Commander") Ramona (died January 6, 2006) was the nom de guerre of an officer of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), a revolutionary indigenous autonomist organization based in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas. She was perhaps the most famous female Zapatista figure for her role early in the uprising. A member of the Zapatista leading council, the CCRI (Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee), she served as a symbol of equality and dignity for indigenous and impoverished women.
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Conquistador
:This article is about the Spanish explorer soldiers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. For other uses see Conquistador (disambiguation)
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Crescencio Poot
Crescencio Poot (1820–1885) was a leading general in the Caste War of Yucatán.
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Francisco Luna Kan
Dr. Francisco Epigmenio Luna Kan (born December 3, 1925) is a Mexican politician. Francisco Luna Kan was governor of the state of Yucatán from 1976 to 1982.
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Gaspar Antonio Chi
Gaspar Antonio Chi (c. 1531–1610; also known as Gaspar Antonio de Herrera) was a Maya noble of Mani. Gaspar Antonio was of the Chi chibal (lineage) through his father Napuc Chi, and the Xiu chibal through his mother, Ix Kukil Xiu. He worked primarily as a translator between Spanish and Maya, and is thought to have been an important source of information for Diego de Landa in writing his Relación de las cosas de Yucatán.
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Gonzalo Guerrero
Gonzalo Guerrero (also known as Gonzalo Marinero, Gonzalo de Aroca and Gonzalo de Aroza) was a sailor from Palos, in Spain who shipwrecked along the Yucatan Peninsula and was taken as a slave by the local Maya. Earning his freedom, Guerrero became a respected warrior under a Maya Lord and raised three of the first mestizo children. Little is known of his early life.
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Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquis of the Oaxaca Valley (; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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Hilario Chi Canul
Hilario Chi Canul (Born 16 October 1981) is a Mexican linguist of Maya ethnicity who worked as a translator and language coach in the production of the movie Apocalypto by Mel Gibson. In 2007 he won the first prize in the Mexican governments competition of indigenous language rhetorics. He is Professor of Maya at the Intercultural University of the State of Quintana Roo, He has worked as Maya language narrator in a number of commercial, art, and educational films. and he is also involved in the movement to revive Mexico's indigenous heritage. He has also given talks about his experience as a Maya translator working in the film industry at several American universities.
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Inga Clendinnen
Inga Vivienne Clendinnen AO (born 17 August 1934) is an Australian author and historian, anthropologist and academic.
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Itza
The Itza are a Guatemalan ethnic group of Maya affiliation speaking the Itza' language. They inhabit the Petén department of Guatemala in and around the city of Flores on the Lake Petén Itzá. Although there are still around 30,000 ethnic Itza, who retain their indigenous culture, the Itza language is now almost extinct. The Mayan word itza means 'enchanted waters' and may have been adopted from the name of the lake itself.
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Ixil people
Ixil is the name of a Mayan people in Guatemala. The Ixil live in three municipalities in the Cuchumatanes mountains in the northern part of the department El Quiché. These municipalities -also known as the Ixil Triangle- are Santa Maria Nebaj, San Gaspar Chajul, and San Juan Cotzal.
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Jacinto Canek
Jacinto Canek, or Jacinto Uc de los Santos (ca. 1731, barrio de San Román, City of Campeche, New Spain—December 14, 1761, Mérida, New Spain) was an eighteenth-century Maya revolutionary who fought against the Spanish in the Yucatán Peninsula of New Spain.
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Jakaltek people
The Jakaltek people are a Mayan people of Guatemala. They have lived in the foothills of the Cuchumatanes Mountains in the Department of Huehuetenango in northwestern Guatemala since pre-Columbian times, centered around the town of Jacaltenango. Located on a plateau overlooking Mexico, Jacaltenango is 1,437 m above sea level and its surrounding villages are located at both higher and lower elevations. The town of Jacaltenango is a governmental, religious, and market center of the region. In the Jakaltek language the town of Jacaltenango is called Xajlaj, or “place of the big white rock slabs.”
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Juan de Grijalva
Juan de Grijalva (born around 1489 in Cuéllar - January 21, 1527) was a Spanish conquistador. Some authors said he was from the same family as Diego Velázquez.
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K'iche' people
:This page is about the Native American people; for other uses, the dish, see Quiché (disambiguation).
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Kaqchikel people
The Kaqchikel are one of the indigenous Maya peoples of the midwestern highlands in Guatemala. The name was formerly spelled in various other ways, including Cakchiquel, Cakchiquel, Kakchiquel, Caqchikel, and Cachiquel.
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Mam people
The Mam are a Native American people in the western highlands of Guatemala and in south-western Mexico.
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Marcial Mes
Marcial Mes (born 1949) is a Belizean politician and a member of the People's United Party. He was elected to parliament in 1998, representing the Toledo West constituency.
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Matthew Restall
Matthew Restall (b. 17 March, 1964) is an ethnohistorian and Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History, Anthropology, and Women's Studies, Director of Latin American Studies, and Director of LiLACS at the Pennsylvania State University. He is co-editor of Ethnohistory journal, and series editor of Latin American Originals.
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Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution () was a major armed struggle that started in 1910, with an uprising led by Francisco I. Madero against longtime autocrat Porfirio Díaz. The Revolution was characterized by several socialist, liberal, anarchist, populist, and agrarianist movements. Over time the Revolution changed from a revolt against the established order to a multi-sided civil war.
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Mopan people
Mopan are one of the Maya peoples in Belize and Guatemala. Their indigenous language is also called Mopan and is one of the Yucatec Maya languages.
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Poqomam people
The Poqomam are a Maya people in Guatemala. Their indigenous language is also called Poqomam and is closely related to Poqomchi'. Notable Poqomam settlements are located in Chinautla (Guatemala (department)), Palín (Escuintla), and in San Luis Jilotepeque (Jalapa). Before the Spanish Conquest, the Poqomam had their capital at Chinautla Viejo.
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Poqomchi'
The Poqomchi' are a Maya people in Guatemala. Their indigenous language is also called Poqomchi', and is related to the Quichean-Poqom branch. Poqomchí is spoken in Baja Verapaz (Purulhá) and in Alta Verapaz: Santa Cruz Verapaz, San Cristóbal Verapaz, Tactic, Tamahú and Tucurú. It is also spoken in Chicamán (El Quiché).
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Pre-Columbian
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Q'anjob'al people
The '''Q'anjob'al''' (Kanjobal) are a Maya people in Guatemala. Their indigenous language is also called Q'anjob'al.
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Q'eqchi' people
'''Q'eqchi' ( or Kekchi''' in an older orthography) are one of the Maya peoples in Guatemala and Belize, whose indigenous language is also called Q'eqchi'.
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Rigoberta Menchú
Rigoberta Menchú Tum (born 9 January 1959, Laj Chimel, El Quiché, Guatemala) is an indigenous Guatemalan, of the K'iche' Maya ethnic group. Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the plight of Guatemala's indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996), and to promoting indigenous rights in the country. She received the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize and Prince of Asturias Award in 1998. She is the subject of the testimonial biography I, Rigoberta Menchú (1983) and the author of the autobiographical work, Crossing Borders. Later, American anthropologist David Stoll visited Guatemala and uncovered evidence that some of the claims in Menchú's Nobel Prize-winning autobiography were false.
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Tojolabal
Tojolabal is an indigenous community in the southern part of the Mexican state of Chiapas. Tojolabales, which belongs to the Mayan group, consists of about 40,000 people concentrated near the city of Las Margaritas. They speak the Tojolabal language.
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Tz'utujil people
The '''Tz'utujil (Tzutujil, Tzutuhil, Sutujil''') are a Native American people, one of the 21 Maya ethnic groups that dwell in Guatemala. Together with the Xinca, Garífunas (Black Caribs) and the Ladinos, they make up the 24 ethnic groups in this relatively small country. Approximately 100,000 Tz'utujil live in the area around Lake Atitlán. Their pre-Columbian capital, near Santiago Atitlán, was Chuitinamit. In pre-Columbian times, the Tz'utujil nation was a part of the ancient Maya civilization.
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Tzotzil people
The Tzotzil are an indigenous Maya people of the central Chiapas highlands in southern Mexico. As of 2000, they numbered about 290,000. The municipalities with largest Tzotzil population are Chamula (48,500), San Cristóbal de las Casas (30,700), and Zinacantan (24,300), in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
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Uspantek people
The Uspantek (Uspantecos, Uspantekos) are a Maya people in Guatemala, principally located in the municipality of Uspantán. The Uspantek language is closely related to K'iche'.
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Baja Verapaz
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Belize
Belize () (formerly British Honduras), is a democratic constitutional monarchy, and the northernmost Central American nation. Belize has a diverse society, comprising many cultures and languages. Although Kriol and Spanish are spoken among the population, Belize is the only country in Central America where English is the official language. Belize is bordered by Mexico to its north, by Guatemala to its south and west, and by the Caribbean Sea to the east.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At its height it was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power. By 1922 the British Empire held sway over about 458 million people, one-quarter of the world's population at the time, and covered more than 13 million square miles (34 million km2), almost a quarter of the Earth's total land area. As a result, its political, linguistic and cultural legacy is widespread. At the peak of its power, it was often said that "the sun never sets on the British Empire" because its span across the globe ensured that the sun was always shining on at least one of its numerous territories.
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California
California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
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Campeche
Campeche () is a state in the southeast of Mexico. It is bordered by the Mexican states of Yucatán to the north east, Quintana Roo to the east, and Tabasco to the south west. To the south it is bordered by the Petén department of Guatemala and to the west by the Gulf of Mexico.
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Chetumal
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Chiapas
Chiapas () is the southernmost state of Mexico, located towards the southeast of the country. Chiapas is bordered by the states of Tabasco to the north, Veracruz to the northwest, and Oaxaca to the west. To the east Chiapas borders Guatemala, and to the south the Pacific Ocean,
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Chichen Itza
Chichen Itza (; from , "at the mouth of the well of the Itza") is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site built by the Maya civilization located in the northern center of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the Yucatán state, present-day Mexico.
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Dallas
Dallas () is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. As of 2009, the population of Dallas was at 1.3 million according to the US Census Bureau. The city is the largest economic center of the 12-county metropolitan area that according to the March 2010 U.S. Census Bureau release, had a population of roughly 6.5 million as of July 2009. The metropolitan area is the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States.
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El Salvador
El Salvador (; , literally meaning "Republic of The Savior") is the smallest and also the most densely populated country in Central America. It borders the Pacific Ocean between Guatemala and Honduras. It lies on the Gulf of Fonseca, as do Honduras and Nicaragua further south.
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Guatemala
Guatemala (; , ) is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast. Its area is 108,890 km² (42,043 mi²) with an estimated population of 13,276,517.
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Honduras
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Honduras (, , ) is a republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras (now Belize). The country is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.
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Lacandon Jungle
The Lacandon Jungle (Spanish: Selva Lacandona) is a jungle in the state of Chiapas, Mexico.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; , Spanish for "The Angels") is the second most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of California and the western United States, with a population of 3.83 million within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Los Angeles extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of over 14.8 million and it is the 14th largest urban area in the world, affording it megacity status. The metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is home to nearly 12.9 million residents while the broader Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside combined statistical area (CSA) contains nearly 17.8 million people. Los Angeles is also the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populated and one of the most multicultural counties in the United States. The city's inhabitants are referred to as "Angelenos" ().
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Mexico
Mexico, (pronounced ; ), officially known as the United Mexican States (), is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2 million square kilometres (over 760,000 sq mi), Mexico is the fifth-largest country in the Americas by total area and the 14th largest independent nation in the world. With an estimated population of 111 million, it is the 11th most populous country and the most populous Hispanophone country on Earth. Mexico is a federation comprising thirty-one states and a Federal District, the capital city.
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Mérida, Yucatán
Mérida ('''T'hó' or Ichkanzihóo''' (the original name) in Modern Maya) is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Yucatán and the Yucatán Peninsula. It is located in the northwest part of the state, about 35 km (22 miles) from the Gulf of Mexico coast. The city is also the municipal seat of the Municipality of Mérida, which includes the city and the areas around it.
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Nevada
Nevada is a state located in the western and southwestern region of the United States. Nevada is also part of the Mountain States. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas. The state's nickname is Silver State, due to the large number of silver deposits that were discovered and mined there. "Sagebrush State" and "Battle Born State" are its alternative nicknames. In 1864, Nevada became the 36th state to enter the union, and the phrase "Battle Born" on the state flag reflects the state's entry on the Union side during the American Civil War. Its first nonnative settlement was called Mormon Station.
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Quiché Department
El Quiché is a department of Guatemala.
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Quintana Roo
Quintana Roo () officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Quintana Roo () is one of 31 states with the Federal District comprise the 32 federative entities of Mexico. Located on the eastern part of the Yucatán Peninsula, it borders the States of Yucatán and Campeche to the north and west, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the nation of Belize to the south. Quintana Roo also claims territory which gives it a small border with Guatemala in the south west of the state, although this disputed area is also claimed by Campeche.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2009 estimated population of 815,358. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of 17,323 people/mi² (6,688.4 people/km²). It is the most densely-settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States. San Francisco is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of more than 7.4 million.
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Spain
Spain ( ; , ), officially the Kingdom of Spain (), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar; to the north by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the northwest and west by the Atlantic Ocean and Portugal.
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Tabasco
Tabasco () is a state in Mexico. It is bordered by the states of Veracruz to the west, Chiapas to the south, and Campeche to the north-east. To the east Tabasco borders with the Petén department of Guatemala, and to the north with the Bay of Campeche (part of the Gulf of Mexico). Tabasco is in the northern half of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
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Texas
Texas () is the second-largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state in the contiguous United States.
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Utah
Utah ( or ) is a western state of the United States. It was the 45th state admitted to the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,784,572 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the sixth most urbanized in the U.S. The name "Utah" is derived from the name of the Ute tribe and means "people of the mountains" in the Ute language. Utah is bordered by Arizona on the south, Colorado on the east, Wyoming on the northeast, Idaho on the north and Nevada on the west. It also touches a corner of New Mexico.
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Yucatan
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Yucatan Peninsula
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Yucatán
Yucatán () is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located on the north of the Yucatán Peninsula. The Congress of Yucatan was installed on August 20, 1823; and was admitted to the Mexican federation on 21 December 1823, being the 8th state admitted. The Yucatan peninsula includes three states: Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo; all three modern states were formerly part of the larger historic state of Yucatán in the 19th century. The state capital of Yucatán is Mérida.
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Yucatán Peninsula
The Yucatán Peninsula, in southeastern Mexico, separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico, with the northern coastline on the Yucatán Channel. The peninsula lies east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a northwestern geographic partition separating the region of Central America from the rest of North America.
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- Achi people
- Ah Ahaual
- Akatek people
- Armando Manzanero
- Baja Verapaz
- Belize
- British Empire
- California
- Campeche
- Caste War of Yucatán
- Cayo District
- Central America
- Ch'ol people
- Ch'orti' people
- Chan Santa Cruz
- Chetumal
- Chiapas
- Chiapas conflict
- Chichen Itza
- Chontal Maya people
- Christianity
- Chuj people
- Comandante Ramona
- Conquistador
- Crescencio Poot
- Dallas
- divide and rule
- El Salvador
- English language
- EZLN
- Francisco Luna Kan
- Francisco Montejo
- Gaspar Antonio Chi
- Gonzalo Guerrero
- Guatemala
- Hernán Cortés
- Hilario Chi Canul
- hispanicized
- Honduras
- INEGI
- Inga Clendinnen
- Itza
- Ixil people
- Jacinto Canek
- Jakaltek people
- Juan de Grijalva
- Juan Jose Pacho
- K'iche' people
- Kaqchikel people
- Lacandon
- Lacandon Community
- Lacandon Jungle
- Lacandon region
- language
- Los Angeles
- Mam people
- Marcial Mes
- Matthew Restall
- Maya civilization
- Maya languages
- Maya religion
- Mayan languages
- Mayan speakers
- Mestizo
- Mexican Revolution
- Mexico
- Mopan people
- Mérida, Yucatán
- Nevada
- Nobility
- Orange Walk District
- Popol Vuh
- Poqomam people
- Poqomchi'
- Pre-Columbian
- Q'anjob'al people
- Q'eqchi' people
- Quiché Department
- Quintana Roo
- rainforest
- Rigoberta Menchú
- Roman Catholic
- San Francisco
- Spain
- Spanish language
- Tabasco
- Texas
- Tojolabal
- Toledo District
- Tz'utujil people
- Tzeltal
- Tzotzil people
- Uspantek people
- Utah
- Yucatan
- Yucatan Peninsula
- Yucatec
- Yucatec Maya
- Yucatán
- Yucatán Peninsula
MAYAS (MAYAN WORLD) BRIAN ENO DEEP BLUE DAY
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:59
- Published: 31 Mar 2008
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Maya civilization From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. For a discussion of the modern Maya, see Maya peoples. For other meanings of the word Maya, see Maya. Maya civilization Languages | Peoples Architecture | Calendar Human sacrifice | Mythology Peoples | Religion Society | Textiles Pre-Columbian Music Trade | Writing Maya history Maya collapse Spanish conquest of Yucatán The Maya civilization is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as its spectacular art, monumental architecture, and sophisticated mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Preclassic period, many of these reached their apogee of development during the Classic period (c. 250 to 900), and continued throughout the Postclassic period until the arrival of the Spanish. At its peak, it was one of the most densely populated and culturally dynamic societies in the world. The Maya civilization shares many features with other Mesoamerican civilizations due to the high degree of interaction and cultural diffusion that characterized the region. Advances such as writing, epigraphy, and the calendar did not originate with the Maya; however, their civilization fully developed them. Maya influence can be detected as far as central Mexico, more than 1000 km (625 miles) from the Maya area. Many outside influences are <b>...</b>
Letterman 111009 Message from the Mayan People About 2012
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PAVA: Honoring the Mayan People (1 of 2)
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- Published: 29 Sep 2008
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This video describes the work of PAVA, a non-profit, apolitical, non-denominational, volunteer organization that works in the Guatemalan highlands.
Words of Life MAYA, YUCATEC People/Language Movie Trailer
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This is: Words of Life MAYA, YUCATEC People/Language Movie Trailer c10370 [c10370t] Other names for this language are: Belizean Maya, British Honduras Maya, Campeche Maya, Chan Sta Cruz Maya, Maya, Mayan, Maya Yucatanice, Sta Cruz Maya, Yucatec Maya, Yucateco, Yucateco/Itza This language...
Mayan Guy teaching his language
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Taken in Chichen Itza...This guy is mayan people. He is teaching mayan language in spanish. Learn one of the ancient language of the world...
Where are the Maya?
In eleven days and nights of February 2010, the nine members of the Narco News School of Authentic Journalism's documentary filmmaking group reported, investigated, interviewed, filmed and produced this 15:34 documentary about the descendants of the original indigenous peoples of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula where the tourist industry from Cancun to Playa del Carmen now exploits them as workers, residents and in name.
Mayan Indian prophecies fulfilled
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- Published: 20 Dec 2006
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Video made in the Maya Mountains, Cayo district, Belize, Central America. This is a discussion done in the Mayan language between two Mayan Indian Baha'is about Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i Faith as the fulfillment of both the Mayan prophecies and the Bible prophecies. For more info go to bci.org
rock maya
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rock maya documentary harleyshields.com
Maya Achi Alphabet
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- Published: 27 Dec 2006
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- Author: Guatestuff
This is a reading of the alphabet in Maya Achi- a Guatemalan language. For more information see Fundacion Nueva Esperanza (www.fne.cosmosmaya.info), Elote eV (www.elote.de) or Guatemala Solidarity Network (gsn.civiblog.org).
flores pa mama INDIA MAYA .GUATEMALA.
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![Maya Man speaking Yucatec Maya [subtitled in English] Learn Maya](http://web.archive.org./web/20110729014318im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/yfx0shzdACs/0.jpg "Maya Man speaking Yucatec Maya [subtitled in English] Learn Maya")
Maya Man speaking Yucatec Maya [subtitled in English] Learn Maya
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A Maya man in San Francisco speaking Yucateco Maya. There are over 20000 Mayas in San Francisco, California; and about 750000 in southern Mexico. Look for them when you visit Cancun. He is deliberately speaking clearly to help others understand. He is describing the things you would see if you were to walk on the road into his home town of Oxkutzcab. These include restaurants a swimming pool, market and town square. About 10% of his vocabulary is Spanish, especially modern words and institutions. The larger towns use more Spanish and the purest form of Yucatec Mayan is found deep in the jungle/woods in small towns or settlements.
Mopan Mayan words
German from a Mopan Mayan village in Belize teaches how to say some words in his language. You can view more at worldstogethertravel.com
Mayan Religion
RADIO QMAN TXUN (original 4:3 version) 1 of 7
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Chronicle of a mayan village / Crónica de un pueblo maya. Spanish and mam spoken with english and spanish subtitles
pt 3 The Dawn of the Maya
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Spanish vs The Mayan People
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- Published: 01 Jan 2009
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This is a part of a show at Xcaret Water Park in Cancun, MX. At the begining of the clip you see the Spanish landing in Latin America in 16th Century. The Mayan people first welcome the Spanish but things soon get a little out of hand when the Spanish try to force their Christian beliefs on the Mayan people. A battle soon starts with the Mayan warriors losing to the Spanish and their horses.Great Show,Life's short..Live it to the fullest..Go Somewhere,Do Something,See Everthing you dreamed of before time runs out. TRAVEL TO FIND THE CURE
Climate impacts on the Mayan People in Mexico
Indigenous, Forest, and Farming Communities Victor Menotti interviews Marcelo Carreon with Karen Abella, IFG intern, translating. Carreon is leading a mobilization to Cancun of over 3000 members of the National Union of Autonomous Regional Campesino Organizations-National Coordination (UNORCA-CN) in Mexico. Drawing most heavily from the Mayan region that surrounds Cancun, indigenous, forest, and farming communities are coming to COP 16 to pressure governments to agree to ambitious cuts in the dangerous greenhouse gases. They are also demanding that all decisions respect indigenous peoples' and forest communities' rights. Carreon explains how a decade-long drought that are believed to be increasing the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events. The impacts are drying up the traditional corn crops threatening their livelihoods and survival.
TOUR ON THE LAKE ATITLAN PANAJACHEL SOLOLA GUATEMALA
Daily tour around Lake Atitlan, to see the traditions, mayan culture, lifestyle, history & experience with the friendly mayan people, see the coffe, textiles, handicrafts, souvenirs, colonial chuch in Santiago Atitlan, ceramic shop, foot loom, back loom, mayan markets, local Naif Art, see the idol maxion, the local religions, and the color ful dress, each town is diferent color and style.
Maya Nehme-Mayel
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Caye Caulker Chronicles Presents a glimpse of LA RUTA MAYA 2009
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Here is some raw footage of 3 days of Chasing La Ruta Maya Canoe Race down the Macal and Belize River. DAY 1 The following footage begins early morning at the start of the race in San Ignacio and we chased it to Guana Creek Bridge then on to Banana Bank. DAY 2 Footage of boats arriving at Bermuda Landing DAY 3 Footage at Burrel Boom DAY 4 Final, I missed!
Learning Maya
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Santos teaches us the different pronunciations and meanings of kan -- at Cooperativa Xyaat, Señor, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Yol K'u Mayan Mountain Music Part 2
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Part 2 of 2, santur player Alan Kushan and composer Dave Soldier travel to the Mayan mountain village of San Mateo Ixtatan in northern Guatemala and coach students at the Seeds of Knowledge School to compose experimental music. Filmed by Chip Krezzell. CD and DVD are available from www.mulatta.org
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A Maya-Chortí indian, Barbasquiadero, near Copán Ruinas, Honduras. Photograph taken as this indigenous land was being retaken from ranchers through the interventions of the indigenous people through the National Indigenous Maya Chortí Council of Honduras.
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National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. Maya mask. Stucco frieze from Placeres, Campeche.
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"El Castillo" at Xunantunich. Before the arrival of Europeans, the Maya civilization spread itself over Belize beginning around 1500 BC and flourished until about AD 800. The recorded history of the center and south is dominated by Caracol, where the inscriptions on their monuments was, as elsewhere, in the Lowland Maya aristocratic tongue Classic Ch'olti'an.
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BELIZEMONUMENT
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Jaguar warrior in the Aztec culture
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Cerros.
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Baroque Catholic church, built in 1572 Nickname(s): Rabinal is a small town located in the Guatemalan department of Baja Verapaz, at 15°6′0″N 90°27′0″W / 15.1°N 90.45°W / 15.1; -90.45.
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Sibun River
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Brazilian Indigenous chiefs of the Kayapo tribe.
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Campeche, Campeche.
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San Antonio Palopó
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And the opposing view, from the Pyramid of the Sun
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Xcaret Park
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Excavations next to El Castillo began in 2009.
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Basilica
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Archaeological sites of Chichén-Itzá, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World
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Cathedral on the Plaza Mayor, the oldest in North America .
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View of the Columns of the Burned Palace at Tula Hidalgo, the second Ballcourt is in the background.(在图拉伊达尔戈所刻录宫柱认为，第二Ballcourt是在后台)
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Mexico is home to some of the worlds oldest writing systems such as Mayan Script. Maya writing uses logograms complemented by a set of alphabetical or syllabic glyphs and characters, similar in function to modern Japanese writing.
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Chichen Itza 3.
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Structure 2 at Calakmul, one of the most massive structures in the Maya world, was originally built in the Preclassic and continued in use through to the Late Classic
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Mayan Stelae, an emblematic symbol of the Honduran Mayan civilization at Copan.
![Campfire remains in the Valley of Mexico have been radiocarbon-dated to 21,000 BCE, and a few chips of stone tools have been found near the hearths, indicating the presence of humans at that time.[27] Around 9,000 years ago, ancient indigenous peoples domesticated corn and initiated an agricultural revolution, leading to the formation of many complex civilizations. Between 1,800 and 300 BCE, many matured into advanced pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations such as: the Olmec, the Teotihuacan,](http://web.archive.org./web/20110729014318im_/http://cdn.wn.com/pd/5d/c1/fbde71f233feb2109778b5ae96ac_grande.jpg "Campfire remains in the Valley of Mexico have been radiocarbon-dated to 21,000 BCE, and a few chips of stone tools have been found near the hearths, indicating the presence of humans at that time.[27] Around 9,000 years ago, ancient indigenous peoples domesticated corn and initiated an agricultural revolution, leading to the formation of many complex civilizations. Between 1,800 and 300 BCE, many matured into advanced pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations such as: the Olmec, the Teotihuacan,")
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Campfire remains in the Valley of Mexico have been radiocarbon-dated to 21,000 BCE, and a few chips of stone tools have been found near the hearths, indicating the presence of humans at that time.[27] Around 9,000 years ago, ancient indigenous peoples domesticated corn and initiated an agricultural revolution, leading to the formation of many complex civilizations. Between 1,800 and 300 BCE, many matured into advanced pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations such as: the Olmec, the Teotihuacan,
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Stela 88 stands upon the stairway of Structure 13
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Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla "The Father of Mexico"
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A manioc tuber
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Detail of a relief from a Mayan ruin at Palenque drawn by Ricardo Almendáriz at the time of its original excavation in 1787
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Daily life of people from the Song period at the capital, Bianjing, today's Kaifeng.
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Hybrid tomatoes growth by hydroponic methods on straw bales.
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The ancient Ur of Sumer, in present day Tell el-Mukayyar in Iraq is known to be one of the world's earliest сities
![Campfire remains in the Valley of Mexico have been radiocarbon-dated to 21,000 BCE, and a few chips of stone tools have been found near the hearths, indicating the presence of humans at that time.[27] Around 9,000 years ago, ancient indigenous peoples domesticated corn and initiated an agricultural revolution, leading to the formation of many complex civilizations. Between 1,800 and 300 BCE, many matured into advanced pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations such as: the Olmec, the Teotihuacan,](http://web.archive.org./web/20110729014318im_/http://cdn.wn.com/pd/5d/c1/fbde71f233feb2109778b5ae96ac_thumb.jpg "Campfire remains in the Valley of Mexico have been radiocarbon-dated to 21,000 BCE, and a few chips of stone tools have been found near the hearths, indicating the presence of humans at that time.[27] Around 9,000 years ago, ancient indigenous peoples domesticated corn and initiated an agricultural revolution, leading to the formation of many complex civilizations. Between 1,800 and 300 BCE, many matured into advanced pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations such as: the Olmec, the Teotihuacan,")
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Indian Express
Describing the Opposition parties' protest over the Urban Local Self Government Laws (Second amendment) Bill, 2011, as "most unfortunate", Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday said her government had introduced indirect election of mayors and presidents of...
Indian Express
For the first time after the formation of her government in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Mayawati will begin an extensive tour of the state in the first week of February. The announcement in this regard has come after the result of Bihar Assembly elections where the...
Maya dedicates projects to people
07 Dec 2010
Indian Express
Chief Minister Mayawati dedicated to people a number of projects, including a new park in Lucknow, on the 54th death anniversary of Dr B R Ambedkar, the architect of Indian Constitution. The projects include new Dr B...
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Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal reacted strongly to the state government's inability to implement the Right to Education Act and its demand that the Centre provide 100 per cent funding for it. "If you (Mayawati) do not wish to...
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Rahul urges people to oust Maya's govt
19 May 2010
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Mirzapur, May 19: Ruling out any truck with the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday urged the youth of Uttar Pradesh to help the Congress to oust the BSP and “revive the old lost glory” of the state. “We will overthrow the BSP from this state,” Rahul...
Sonia prods people to ask Maya about funds
17 May 2010
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Lucknow, May 17: Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who on Monday began a three-day trip of her constituency Rae Bareli, has asked people to seek an account from Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on the utilisation of central government funds for...
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01 Mar 2010
Indian Express
The BJP's booklet attacking the BSP government may have failed to deliver the intended message in villages as party workers are complaining that they have to explain to the aam aadmi that this is not a behenji ki kitaab, this booklet is by the BJP against the poor...
Maya peoples
| Group | Maya |
|---|---|
| Poptime | estimated 7 million |
| Popplace | Parts of modern-day countries of El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras |
| Rels | Christianity (predominantly Roman Catholic), Maya religion |
| Langs | Mayan languages, Spanish, Kriol and English |
The Maya people constitute a diverse range of the Native American people of southern Mexico and northern Central America. The overarching term "Maya" is a convenient collective designation to include the peoples of the region who share some degree of cultural and linguistic heritage; however, the term embraces many distinct populations, societies, and ethnic groups, who each have their own particular traditions, cultures, and historical identity.
There are an estimated 7 million Maya living in this area at the start of the 21st century. Further, confusion of the term Maya/Mayan as ethnic label occurs because Maya women who use traditional dress autoidentify by the ethnic term mestiza and not Maya. As well, persons use a strategy of ethnic identitification that Juan Castillo Cocom refers to as "ethnoexodus" -- meaning that ethnic self identification as Maya is quite variable, situational, and articulated not to processes of producing group identity but of escaping from discriminatory processes of sociocultural marginalization (see http://i09.cgpublisher.com/proposals/330/index_html).
The Yucatán's indigenous population was first exposed to Europeans after a party of Spanish shipwreck survivors came ashore in 1511. One of the sailors, Gonzalo Guerrero, is reported to have started a family and taken up a position of counsel among a local polity near present-day Chetumal. Later Spanish expeditions to the region were led by Córdoba in 1517, Grijalva in 1518 and Cortés in 1519. From 1528 to 1540, several attempts by Francisco Montejo to conquer the Yucatán failed. His son Francisco de Montejo the Younger fared almost as badly when he first took over: while desperately holding out at Chichen Itza, he lost 150 men in a single day. European diseases, massive recruitment of native warriors from Campeche and Champoton, and internal hatred between the Xiu Maya and the lords of Cocom eventually turned the tide for Montejo the Younger and consequently resulted in the fall of Chichen Itza by 1570. mentions a series of letters sent to the King of Spain in the 16th and 17th Centuries. The noble Maya Families at that time signed documents to the Spanish Royal Family; surnames mentioned in those letters are Pech, Camal, Xiu, Ucan, Canul, Cocom, and Tun, among others.
A large 19th century revolt by the native Maya people of Yucatán (Mexico), known as the Caste War of Yucatán, was one of the most successful modern Native American revolts; results included the temporary existence of the Maya state of Chan Santa Cruz, recognized as an independent nation by the British Empire.
Francisco Luna-Kan was elected governor of the state of Yucatán from 1976 to 1982. Luna-Kan was born in Mérida, Yucatán, and he was a Doctor of medicine, then a Professor of Medicine before his political offices, his first being overseer of the state's rural medical system. He was the first Governor of in the modern Yucatan Peninsula, from a full Maya background. Currently there are dozens of politicians including Deputies, Majors and Senators from a full or mixed Maya heritage from the Yucatan Peninsula.
According to the National Institute of Geography and Informatics (Mexico’s INEGI) in Yucatan State there were 1.2 million of Mayan speakers in 2009, representing 59.5% of the inhabitants. Due to this, the cultural section of the government of Yucatan began to give on-line classes for grammar and proper pronunciation of Maya.
Maya People from Yucatan Peninsula living in the United States of America have been organizing Maya language lessons and Maya cooking classes since 2003 in California and other states: clubs of Yucatec Maya are registered in Dallas and Irving, Texas; Salt Lake City in Utah; Las Vegas, Nevada; and California, with groups in San Francisco, San Rafael, Chino, Pasadena, Santa Ana, Garden Grove, Inglewood, Los Angeles, Thousand Oaks, Oxnard, San Fernando Valley and Whittier.
In Guatemala, the Spanish colonial pattern of keeping the native population legally separate and subservient continued well into the 20th century. This resulted in many traditional customs being retained, as the only other option than traditional Maya life open to most Maya was entering the Hispanic culture at the very bottom rung.
Considerable identification with local and linguistic affinities, often corresponding to pre-Columbian nation states, continues, and many people wear traditional clothing that displays their specific local identity. Clothing of women tends to be more traditional than that of the men.
The Maya people of the Guatemala highlands include the Achi, Akatek, Chuj, Ixil, Jakaltek, Kaqchikel, K'iche', Mam, Poqomam, Poqomchi', Q'anjob'al, Q'eqchi', Tz'utujil and Uspantek.
The southeastern region of Guatemala (bordering with Honduras) includes groups such as the Ch'orti'. The northern lowland Petén region includes the Itza, whose language is near extinction but whose agro-forestry practices, including use of dietary and medicinal plants may still tell us much about pre-colonial management of the Maya lowlands.
Maya Heritage
The Maya people are known for their brightly colored yarn-based textiles, which are woven into capes, shirts, blouses, huipiles and dresses. Each village has its own distinctive pattern, making it possible to distinguish a person's home town on sight. Women's clothing consists of a shirt and a long skirt. Roman Catholicism combined with the indigenous Maya religion are the unique syncretic religion which prevailed throughout the country and still does in the rural regions. Beginning from negligible roots prior to 1960, however, Protestant Pentecostalism has grown to become the predominant religion of Guatemala City and other urban centers and down to mid-sized towns. The unique religion is reflected in the local saint, Maximón, who is associated with the subterranean force of masculine fertility and prostitution. Always depicted in black, he wears a black hat and sits on a chair, often with a cigar placed in his mouth and a gun in his hand, with offerings of tobacco, alcohol, and Coca-cola at his feet. The locals know him as San Simon of Guatemala.The Popol Vuh is the most significant work of Guatemalan literature in the Quiché language, and one of the most important of Pre-Columbian American literature. It is a compendium of Mayan stories and legends, aimed to preserve Maya traditions. The first known version of this text dates from the 16th century and is written in Quiché transcribed in Latin characters. It was translated into Spanish by the Dominican priest Francisco Ximénez in the beginning of the 18th century. Due to its combination of historical, mythical, and religious elements, it has been called the Maya Bible. It is a vital document for understanding the culture of pre-Columbian America. The Rabinal Achí is a dramatic work consisting of dance and text that is preserved as it was originally represented. It is thought to date from the 15th century and narrates the mythical and dynastic origins of the Kek'chi' people, and their relationships with neighboring people. The Rabinal Achí is performed during the Rabinal festival of January 25, the day of Saint Paul. It was declared a masterpiece of oral tradition of humanity by UNESCO in 2005. The 16th century saw the first native-born Guatemalan writers that wrote in Spanish.
List of leaders and notable Maya people
Quotes
"We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism." — Rigoberta Menchú, 1992.
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References
: |year=2002 |title=Toward a Maya Theology of Liberation: The Reformulation of a "Traditional" Religion in the Global Context |journal=Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion |volume=41 |issue=1 |pages=47–67 |doi=10.1111/1468-5906.00099}} : |authorlink=Nikolai Grube |year=2006 |chapter=Maya Today - From Indios Deprived of Rights to the Maya Movement |pages=417–425 |editor= Nikolai Grube (Ed.) |others=Eva Eggebrecht and Matthias Seidel (assistant Eds.) |title=Maya: Divine Kings of the Rain Forest |location=Cologne |publisher=Könemann Press |isbn=3-8331-1957-8 |oclc=71165439}} : :Restall, Matthew (1997). The Maya World. Yucatecan Culture and Society, 1550-1850. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804736589. : |year=1992 |title=Interview with Rigoberta Menchu Tum |publisher=Commission for the Defense of Human Rights in Central America (CODEHUCA) |url=http://www.indigenouspeople.net/menchu2.htm |accessdate=2006-07-03}} : |authorlink=Kay B. Warren|year=1998 |title= Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala |location=Princeton |publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn= 978-0-691-05882-5}}
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