Posted on 10. December, 2017
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Mexico (Yucatán Peninsula) The Mayans in the Yucatán Peninsula call themselves simply Maya. Anthropologists and linguists call their language Yucatec Maya. People of Maya ancestry are about 3 million in the Peninsula but only about 1.2 million speak to varying degree the Maya language….
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Mayans in the Modern World: People With a Celebrated History Downtrodden in the Present
Posted on 3. July, 2018 by Man in the World
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This is a love-and-hate story being played out in real life in the Yucutan Peninsula. On the one hand we have the indigenous Mayans of the Yucatán Peninsula who have a fascinating and world renown history of cities, pyramids, remarkable science achievements, writing, roads,…
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Category: Che (Mapuche), Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: Mapuche, Maya, Mexico, modern day Maya, Native Americans, Yucatan
Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas, Part 3
Posted on 12. December, 2017 by Man in the World
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Mexico (Chiapas) Inhabited mostly by a majority Maya populations of the closely related Tzotzil and Tzeltal ethnic groups in the highlands, the Chol of the forests in the north who inhabited the whole Usumacinta River valley in the Mayan Classic period, the Toholabal and…
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Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas, Part 2
Posted on 10. December, 2017 by Man in the World
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Mexico (Yucatán Peninsula) The Mayans in the Yucatán Peninsula call themselves simply Maya. Anthropologists and linguists call their language Yucatec Maya. People of Maya ancestry are about 3 million in the Peninsula but only about 1.2 million speak to varying degree the Maya language….
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: featured, Maya, modern day Maya, Native Americans, pre-columbian, Yucatan
Empowering the Oppressed – The Mayas, Part 1
Posted on 8. December, 2017 by Man in the World
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This is the first part of what will become a seven part series about the modern day Maya peoples in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. Since the arrival of Spanish conquistadors to their lands from the 16th century onward, they have had…
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Category: Maya, Native Americans, Political CommentaryTags: featured, loosing a culture, Maya, modern day Maya, Native Americans, pre-columbian, Yucatan
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