Ancient Peoples, Modern Migration: Maya Migration and Sustaining Culture

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2016-09-20T02:03:02.000Z
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National Museum of the American Indian
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Ancient Peoples, Modern Migration: Maya Migration and Sustaining Culture
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In this bilingual panel presentation, Maya and other indigenous cultural activists from Mesoamerica discuss the experience of retaining cultural traditions and identity as they negotiate life in the United States. The program is moderated by Jose Barreiro (Taíno), director of the Office for Latin America, National Museum of the American Indian. Panelists: Jeronimo Camposeco, a K’anjobal Maya from Guatemala now settled in Florida, has been instrumental in developing socio-cultural continuity and strategies of survival and well-being after political persecution and economic depression for the growing community of Maya refugees . Juanita Cabrera Lopez, a Mam Maya activist, is executive director of the International Mayan League, one several hundred Maya-based organizations in the United States. The Maya League's purpose is to conserve, protect, and transmit Maya culture, history, language, and vision for future generations of Maya people in the northern diaspora. Margarito Esquino, Nahuat from El Salvador, is chief of the National Association of Indigenous Salvadorans (ANIS), which represents Nahuat, Lenca, and Maya peoples of El Salvador. ANIS advocates for their members’ safety, well-being, and right to practice indigenous cultural traditions. Odilia de Leon, a migrant from the Nebaj–Quiche community of Guatemala, Odilia settled in the United States in 2014, where she works as a domestic. As a leader of the Centreville Labor Resource Center, she helps others in the quest to sustain cultural and social links in a diasporic situation. This program was webcast and recorded in the Rasmuson Theater of the National Museum of the American Indian on September 16, 2016.
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1 hr 30 min
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