Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong

For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?
Hyperallergic

Guatemala's Indigenous Community Expresses Concern Over New Maya Museum

The design for the proposed Maya Museum in Guatemala (via Harry Gugger Studio website) “We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos,” Maya human rights activist Rigoberta Menchú said in ...
insider.si.edu

Mayan lives, Mayan utopias : the indigenous peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista rebellion / edited by Jan Rus, Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, and Shannan L. Mattiace

Mayan lives: continuity and change -- Generation of crisis in the central highlands of Chiapas: the cases of Chamula and Zinacantán, 1974-2000 / Jan Rus, George A. Collier -- Between civil ...
National Catholic Reporter

Indigenous Catholics hope the next pope shares Francis' approach to Native people

At a recent service in the remote southern Mexican community of Simojovel, Catholic and Mayan symbolism mingled at the altar as the deacon — his wife beside him — read the gospel in his native Tsotsil ...