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Self-Education Resources

Overview & History

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Media

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Indigenous Activism

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  • Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE)

  • Guatemalan Indigenous Development Fund (FODIGUA)

  • Inter-American Foundation

  • Office for the Defense of Indigenous Women (DEMI)

  • Organizations in Support of Indigenous Peoples and Communities in Central America (ACICAFOC)

  • Presidential Commission against Racism and Discrimination (CODIRSA)

  • Seattle International Foundation

  • Warren, Kay B., and Jean E. Jackson, editors. Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America. University of Texas Press, 2002. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/791381. Accessed 13 Nov. 2020.

  • Warren, Kay B. Indigenous Movements And Their Critics. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999.

  • Gellman, Mneesha, and Michelle Bellino. Fighting invisibility: indigenous citizens and history education in El Salvador and Guatemala, Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies, 14:1, 1-23, 2019. DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2018.1457006. Accessed 21 Nov. 2020.

  • Larson, Anne M. “Indigenous Peoples, Representation and Citizenship in Guatemalan Forestry.” Conservation and Society, vol. 6, no. 1, 2008, pp. 35–48. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26392909. Accessed 21 Nov. 2020.

  • Lykes, M.B., Blanche, M.T. & Hamber, B. Narrating Survival and Change in Guatemala and South Africa: The Politics of Representation and a Liberatory Community Psychology. Am J Community Psychol 31, 79–90, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023074620506. Accessed 21 Nov. 2020.

  • Montejo, Victor D. Maya Intellectual Renaissance. University of Texas Press, 2005. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/706842. Accessed 9 Nov. 2020.

  • Pallister, Kevin. “Why No Mayan Party? Indigenous Movements and National Politics in Guatemala.” Latin American Politics and Society, vol. 55, no. 3, 2013, pp. 117–138., doi:10.1111/j.1548-2456.2013.00205.x.

  • Ramos, A., 2002. Cutting Through State And Class: Sources And Strategies of Self-representation In Latin America. In: K. Warren and J. Jackson, ed., Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America. Austin, Texas.: University of Texas Press, pp.247-269.

  • Rachel Sieder. ‘Emancipation’ or ‘regulation’? Law, globalization and indigenous peoples’ rights in post-war Guatemala, Economy and Society, 40:2, 239-265, 2012. DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2011.548952. Accessed 16 Nov. 2020.

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Films

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  • The Resistance Saga - Directed by Pamela Yates

    • When the Mountains Tremble, 1983, Dir. Pamela Yates

    • Granito, How to Nail a Dictator, 2011, Dir. Pamela Yates

    • 500 Years, 2017, Dir. Pamela Yates

  • La Llorona, 2019, Dir. Jayro Bustamante

  • Ixcanul, 2015,  Dir. Jayro Bustamante

 

This Toolkit was developed by graduate students at the George Washington University to satisfy degree requirements. The authors welcome feedback from users and experts for further enhancing the Toolkit. All information published in this Toolkit has been sourced through publicly accessible journals, articles, blogs, websites and social media profiles. All images have been sourced from Unsplash and credit goes to their respective owners. If you are the author, creator or owner of this information or images and do not wish for it to be used in this Toolkit, please contact saiansha@gwu.edu. The information in this Toolkit is accurate as of May 2021. The authors do not claim any responsibility for the accuracy beyond May 2021. This Toolkit may be used for free, with attribution to authors, as long as the usage of its contents by you, your organization and your sponsors is compliant with Convention C169 - Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989 (No. 169). Any media intervention, interview, analysis, study or reporting you, your organization or your sponsors conduct using the contents of this Toolkit must involve the acceptance, cooperation and equal participation of the indigenous persons, groups and communities in question, as noted in Convention C169 - 1989 (No. 169).

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