Self-Education Resources

Overview & History

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• Britannica | Guatemala

• CIA World Factbook | Guatemala

• Freedom House | Guatemala

• Galeano, Eduardo. Open Veins of Latin America. Translated by Cedric Belfrage. New York, NY: Monthly Review Press, 1974.

• International Labour Organization | Convention C169 - Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989

• Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI)
   

Media

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• Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN)

• Ambulante

• Cinematography Education and Production Center (CEFREC)

• Coordinadora Latinoamericana de Cine y Comunicación de los Pueblos Indígenas (CLACPI)

• FICMAYAB'

• First Peoples' Cultural Council

• Internews | Internews.org

• Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC)

• Isuma TV

• Mayan Language Academy

• Media Landscapes | Guatemala

• Mother Tongue Film Festival

• Reporters Without Borders | Guatemala

• Rhizomatica

• Camp, Mark. “Media reform in Guatemala.” Cultural Survival, 2016. https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/media-reform-guatemala

• Cojti, Avexnim, and Agnes Portalewska. “Radio: A Lifeline for Indigenous Peoples.” The UNESCO Courier, 2019. https://en.unesco.org/courier/2019-1/radio-lifeline-indigenous-peoples.

• Connolly-Ahern, Colleen and Antoni Castells I Talens. The Role of Indigenous Peoples in

• Guatemalan Political Advertisements: An Ethnographic Content Analysis, Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2010, pp. 310–333, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-9137.2010.01073.x. Accessed 11 Nov. 2020.

• Ginsburg, Faye, Lila Abu-Laghod, and Brian Larkin (ed). Media Worlds - Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkley, Los Angeles & London: University of California Press, 2002.

• Martin, Michael (ed.) New Latin American Cinema Volume One: Theory, Practices and Transcontinental Articulations. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1997.

• Miller, Thomas (ed). Functional Approaches to Written Text - Classroom Applications. Educational Resources Information Center, 1997. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED417422.pdf

• Olson, Jared. “In Guatemala, Finding a Voice in Indigenous Community Radio.” nacla, 2019. https://nacla.org/news/2019/07/11/guatemala-finding-voice-indigenous-community-radio

• Smith, Laurel. “Decolonizing hybridity: Indigenous Media, knowledge and diffraction.” Cultural geographies 19(3), 2012.

• Walsh, Heidi, and Magnus Kossmann. “Latin America: Indigenous Community Reporters on Joining Forces and the Covid-19 Crisis.” dw.com. DW Akademie, August 7, 2020. https://www.dw.com/en/latin-america-indigenouscommunity-reporterson-joining-forcesand-the-covid-19-crisis/a-54396548.

• Wortham, Erica Cusi. Indigenous Media in Mexico Culture, Community, and the State. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2013.

• Wilson, Pamela, and Michelle Stewart (ed). Global Indigenous Media - Cultures, Poetics, and Politics. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2008.

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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