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books on: Cakchiquel  - 124 results

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Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics - Vol. 14
Book by Keith Brown, Anne H. Anderson, Laurie Bauer, Margie Berns, Graeme Hirst, Jim Miller; Elsevier, 2006
Subjects: Language And Languages--Encyclopedias, Linguistics--Encyclopedias
...Acate- nango Southwestern Cakchiquel. Mayan, Quichean-Mamean...Kaqkchikel, Central Icak: Cakchiquel, Kaqchiquel. Mayan, Quichean...Greater Quichean, Qui- chean, Cakchiquel. ) 32,200: Guatemala. Kaqkchikel...
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Lexical Acculturation in Native American Languages
Book by Cecil H. Brown; Oxford, 1999
Subjects: Indians--Cultural Assimilation, Indians--Languages--Lexicology, Historical, Languages In Contact--North America--History, Languages, Mixed--North America--History
...continued Language cases comprising time states compared: Aymara 1 = Aymara 1612 /Aymara 1940-89 Cakchiquel 1 = Cakchiquel c. 1650 /Cakchiquel Central Cakchiquel 2 = Cakchiquel c. 1650 /Cakchiquel 1956-1981 Guarani 1 = Guarani 1639 /Guarani...
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Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala: A Historical Geography of the Cuchumatan Highlands, 1500-1821
Book by W. George Lovell; McGill-Queens University Press, 1992
Subjects: Guatemala--History--To 1821, Indians Of Central America--Guatemala--History
...one major branch of the Quiche, the Cakchiquel, severing its affiliation with Gumarcaah...Upon breaking with Gumarcaah, the Cakchiquel migrated some thirty kilometres to the...of conquest. 73 The secession of the Cakchiquel from the Quiche precipitated a series...
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Encomienda Politics in Early Colonial Guatemala, 1524-1544: Dividing the Spoils
Book by Wendy Kramer; Westview Press, 1994
Subjects: Encomiendas (Latin America), Guatemala--Politics And Government--To 1821, Indians Of Central America--Guatemala--Government Relations, Indians, Treatment Of--Guatemala--History
...Historians now generally agree that the Cakchiquel rebellion, as recorded in The Annals...relations between the Spaniards and their Cakchiquel hosts in Iximche. According to one...the factors that contributed to the Cakchiquel rebellion a few months later...
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The Ancient Americas: A Brief History and Guide to Research
Book by Hanns J. Prem, Kornelia Kurbjuhn; University of Utah Press, 1997
Subjects: America--Antiquities, Indians--Antiquities, Indians--History
...this procedure is given by the Quiche, Cakchiquel, and Tzutujil in the highlands of todays...Mexican culture elements. The Quiche, Cakchiquel, and Tzutujil formed a military alliance...Quiche was supplemented by the allied Cakchiquel, who overcame the local Pokomam. After...
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journal articles on: Cakchiquel  - 8 results

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Out of the Shadows: The Communities of Population in Resistance in Guatemala
Journal article; Social Justice, Vol. 20, 1993
Subjects: Civil-military relations--Guatemala, Government, Resistance to--Social aspects, Guatemala--Civil rights, Human rights--Laws, regulations, etc., Military offenses--Analysis
...Angeles, and Cuarto Pueblo) were built for nearly 30,000 campesinos, almost entirely indigenous (Canjobal, Mam, Kekchi, Cakchiquel, Quiche, Jacalteco, Chuj, and Ixil). Each family was given access to a parcel of land (17.5 hectares) and each member...
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Seeking a New Society: Resurrection and Solidarity
Journal article by Benjamin Cortes; The Ecumenical Review, Vol. 46, 1994
Subjects: Capitalism--Religious aspects, Christianity and justice--Analysis, Resurrection--Philosophy, Solidarity--Religious aspects
...healing our sick. We are encouraged to see the exchange of experiences between peasant farming communities and the Maya-Cakchiquel and Miskito peoples, who are working together to improve their quality of life and are searching for acceptable solutions...
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Quezaltenango
Journal article by Jeff Tietz; Triquarterly, 2003
Subjects: Americans abroad, Quetzaltenango Guatemala
...This was the first time Id heard a Guatemalan speak of the "Maya people." Guatemalans spoke of Indians, of the Mam or Cakchiquel or Quiche or Tzutzuhil, and of the Maya past, but no one spoke of the "Maya people" because the phrase didnt mean anything...
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Mayaworks: Weaving Threads of Entrepreneurship in Guatemala
Journal article by Charles A. Rarick, Kasia Firlej, Martine Duchatelet, Lori Feldman; Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies, Vol. 17, 2011
Subjects: Guatemala, Nonprofit organizations, Social entrepreneurship, United States
...population. The two groups even speak a different language, with the ladinos speaking Spanish, and the Maya speaking Cakchiquel, or one of the other 23 Mayan languages. Guatemala has a population of over 14 million, more than half being of Mayan decent...
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Cultural Revitalization and Tourism at the Moreria Nima' K'iche'
Journal article by Matthew Krystal; Ethnology, Vol. 39, 2000
Subjects: Ethnic folklore--Guatemala, Guatemala--Popular culture, Mayas--Popular culture, Moreria Nima' K'iche'--Management
...Tallares, trajes y danzas traditionales de Guatemala. Guatemala. Hill, R. M. II. 1993, Notes on a 16th-17th Century Cakchiquel Moreria from Chimaltenango. Unpublished paper. New Orleans. Lujan Munoz, L. 1993. Mascaras y morerias de Guatemala...
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magazine articles on: Cakchiquel  - 7 results

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My Pilgrimage in Mission
Magazine article by Kenneth L. Pike; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 21, October 1997
Subjects: Language, Linguistics, Nostalgia, Philosophy, Poetry
...taught us grammatical analysis, based on his experience with Cakchiquel, a language of Guatemala; L. L. Legters gave a few lectures...summer. There I encountered further phonetic difficulties. A Cakchiquel Indian from Guatemala (with whom Townsend had worked on the...
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A Forest Dies in Guatemala
Magazine article by Victor Perera; The Nation, Vol. 249, November 6, 1989
Subjects: Cerezo Arevalo, Marco Vinicio--Environmental policy, Deforestation--Guatemala, Ecology--Guatemala, Guatemala--Environmental aspects, Rain forest ecology--International aspects
...from Guatemalas highland department of Chimaltenango, was a Cakchiquel Indian who had spent the last twenty years in Peten, as both...to your colleagues in North America a warm salute from the Cakchiquel people," Juan said, and waved his weapon at us as we put...
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Maya Nationalism
Magazine article by Carol A. Smith; Report on the Americas, Vol. 25, 1991
Subjects: Latin America, Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Latin America
...Maya group to broach the loaded issue of economic and political autonomy may have been the nongovernmental organization, Cakchiquel Center for Integral Development (COCADI). In their 1989 treatise on the "politics of rural development," COCADI called...
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Global Aspirations, Local Gospels
Magazine article by Blair Gibb; Whole Earth, Summer 1999
Subjects: Human rights--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc., United Nations--Resolutions
...unhchr.ch/html/menu6 /2/fact.htm. Afrikaans, Amharic, Asheninca, Balinese, Bengali, Bora, Bugisnese, Cakchiquel, Campa pajonalino, Caquinte ... an alphabetical listing of all UDHR translations gives an inkling of the near-universality...
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Guatemala: The Struggle for Maya Unity
Magazine article by Antonio Otzoy; NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 29, 1996
Subjects: Latin America, Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Latin America
...strengthen their call for fundamental changes in Guatemalas economic and political system. Much remains to be done. As Maya-Cakchiquel leader Demetrio CojtI+00ED Cuxil says, "We still have far to go to arrive at a democracy that reaches both the economic...
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newspaper articles on: Cakchiquel  - 1 result

 
 
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Students Speak the International Language of Food
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 3, 2006
...learning in Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200s ELL program. Languages spoken by the students include Turkish, Farsi, Cakchiquel, Kizua, Krahn, Kazigua, Spanish, Russian, French, Tigrinya, Bengali, Dinka, Amharic, Serbian, Uzbek, Arabic...


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encyclopedia articles on: Cakchiquel  - 4 results

 
 
1.
Cakchiquel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CAKCHIQUEL see Quiche . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Popol Vuh
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...degree of learning. A similar document, more historical in content and treating of the neighboring Cakchiquel, is the Annals of the Cakchiquel. See the English version of the Popol Vuh by D. Goetz and S. C. Morley (1950); study by L...
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Natives, Middle American
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...architecture, agriculture, the use of stone and sometimes of metal to a high, often remarkable, degree. The Quiche and the Cakchiquel flourished in Guatemala; besides these and the Chorotega, the southern tip of Central America did not produce as highly...
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QuichÉ
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...traditions, blending them with Western customs to create a distinctive mode of life. Pedro de Alvarado , with the help of the Cakchiquel or Kakchiquel, a neighboring but rival group similar in language and stock, conquered them in 1524. However, the Quiche...


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