Native Cooking: Corn Fritters and A Brief History of the Indigenous Staple

Dale Carson
7/9/16
A lot of people call it “life itself,” “the source of life,” or “sacred mother corn.” The Aztec Corn Goddess is Chicomecoatl...

How Did I Miss That? On a Cuteness Jag; Shameless Pharma

Steve Russell
9/25/15
Jaguar, not the sleek but mechanically challenged British sports car but the cat considered sacred by Mayan Indians, is in danger of disappearing from the earth ...

Justice for Mayans in Guatemala

Dina Gilio-Whitaker
6/20/13

Google “Guatemalan genocide” and you’ll find in Wikipedia a description that characterizes it as a civil war between the government and leftist rebel groups made up of predominantly Mayan Indians and poor peasants....

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Crazy Theories Threaten Serpent Mound, Demean Native Heritage

Mary Annette Pember
6/6/13
Is it home to a mine for spaceship fuel? Could it be a portal to another dimension, ready to be activated? Is it a place of hidden paranormal powers?...

Mayan Pyramid Bulldozed for Road Fill in Belize

ICTMN Staff
5/16/13
A construction company in Belize all but destroyed a Mayan pyramid more than 2,000 years old, using the crushed rock for road fill, the Associated Press has reported...

Guatemala’s Mayans Take Their Demands to New Government

David Dudenhoefer
4/2/12
Lucas Garcia Pop, a 30-year-old Q’eqchi Mayan farmer, lost everything last year when he and his neighbors were evicted from Finca San Pablo Pomoxón, a sugar plantation in the Poloc...

Mayans Demand Inclusion in ‘Doomsday Tourism’

ICTMN Staff
1/21/12
The global interest in the interpretations that the Maya calendar predicted horrific catastrophes on December 21, 2012 might not sound like a tourism draw for Mexico, but that's ex...