Programs and Projects at A Glance
IN GUATEMALA
• Scholarships for university students throughout
Guatemala
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Scholarships for high school and diversificado students
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Scholarships for tz’utujil students
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Scholarhips and logistic support to schools
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Scholarhips for high school and diversificado students
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in collaboration with Mayan Hands and Maya Traditions
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to help university students become proficient in English
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Scholarships and support for its library’s textbook acquisition program
IN MEXICO
in collaboration with FOMMA, Sna Jtz’ibajom, the Indigenous Photography Archive, and Lok’tamayach in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas
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Scholarships for university and bachillerato students
• Becas Chuj
Scholarships for university and bachillerato Chuj students
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Workshops for children and adults to learn to read and write their Mayan languages
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Workshops: bakery, computer technology, tailoring
Publications: bi-lingual literacy manuals and others
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to help university students become proficient in English
• The Chiapas Photography Project
supporting photography for indigenous people in Chiapas
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IN BELIZE
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES
James Howe, Un pueblo que no se arrodillaba
As they expanded, most nations in the Western Hemisphere relegated indigenous peoples to the lowest social levels, stealing their land, diminishing their populations, exploiting their labor, and flattening their cultures. Few have gone quietly, however, and some, including the San Blas Kuna of Panama, have won enduring victories.
Tapping into an unusual wealth of historical documents and native testimony to tell the extraordinary story of the Kuna struggle against outside domination during the first quarter of the twentieth century, James Howe illuminates the triangular relationship among a weak Panamanian government, an Indian people who used the political methods of a national society to resist, and the hemisphere’s dominant nation, a colonial power that had supposedly renounced colonialism.
Don Dumond, El machete y la cruz
Violent class struggles and ethnic conflict mark much of the history of Latin America, continuing in some regions even today. Perhaps the worst and most prolonged of these conflicts was the guerra de las castas or “Caste War,” an Indian rebellion that tore apart the Yucatan Peninsula for much of the nineteenth century (1847–1903). The struggle was not only ethnic, pitting indigenous peoples against a Hispanic or Hispanicized ruling class, but also economic, involving attacks by rural campesinos on plantation owners, merchants, overseers, and townspeople. The rebels met with sporadic and limited success but still managed at times to remove whole portions of the Yucatan Peninsula from state control.
Don E. Dumond’s work is the anticipated complete history of the Caste War. Drawing on primary sources, he presents the first comprehensive description of this turbulent century of conflict in Yucatan and sets forth a carefully argued analysis of the reasons and broader social, political, and economic processes underlying the struggle.
COLLABORATION WITH OTHER
MAYA-ORIENTED ORGANIZATIONS
Yax Te’ Books, a publishing enterprise devoted to the dissemination of materials by and about the contemporary Maya of Guatemala, especially to the Maya themselves.
Amigos de San Cristóbal, a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization (NGO) that finds and develops funding for proven charities, which directly serve Chiapas’ most disadvantaged people.
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