National parks and other preserved spaces of nature have become iconic symbols of nature protection around the world. However, the worldviews of Indigenous peop

U Janal Aj Maya: Traditional Maya Cuisine is a cookbook written by Aurora Garcia Saqui, artist, herbalist, Mayan activist and cook who was born into a Yucatec M

The Itzaj Maya language is member of a the Yukatekan Maya language family spoken in the lands of Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize, a family that includes Maya, Mop

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The Maya—the Indians who inhabited part of Mexico and Central America in pre-Hispanic times—left the modern world a legacy of remarkable cooking that is sti