Indigenous Central America
Resources for teaching and learning about Indigenous Central Americans.
Native Land Digital Map shows Indigenous territories, languages, and treaties.
Popol Vuh Maya Creation Story video and Popol Vuh Maya Creation Story PDF. The Popol Vuh narrates the Maya creation story, the tales of the Hero Twins, and the account of the creation of the sky, the Earth, and all life. Created by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.
Smithsonian’s NMAI “Living Maya Time” website includes information about the Maya people and curricular resources for teachers.
“Keeping Garifuna” video and website about Garifuna immigrants to the United States
The Pipils of El Salvador by Bill Fowler. See also this brief history of El Salvador.
Berta Cáceres profile from the Zinn Education Project and Teaching Central America bio
I Am You Or You Are Me / In Lak'ech by Luis Valdez (from Pensamiento Serpentino)
Popol Vuh: A Retelling by Ilan Stavans
El Niño de Maiz by Mario Bencastro
