About
Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim: Reinforcing Our Roots, Living Our Maya Heritage
Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim is a 501(c)(3) organization of the Maya based in Omaha Nebraska, responding to the highest aspirations of the Maya community in the United States and in traditional Maya Territory in ways consistent with the Maya worldview and spirituality and the
United Nations
Declaration on
the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples (UNDRIPS).
Indigenous peoples have belonged to Turtle Island and Abya Yala. We have been here, migrated, and held relationships with Indigenous peoples from North To South and East to West since time immemorial. We have systems, laws and governance that have existed for thousands of years and continue today. Our ancestral authorities and social organization are connected to our values and cosmovisions just as any other people. We have the right to determine and develop priorities and strategies for exercising our rights as peoples and as citizens of sovereign Indigenous nations. In particular, Indigenous peoples have the right to be actively involved in developing and determining our basic human rights including our relationship to the lands we belong to, health, housing, economy, and related social programs. We have the right to administer our own governance and programs through our own institutions and in accordance with our preexisting rights and Article 23 of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
In 2014 signatory states of the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples re-committed themselves to implementing the Declaration.
Outcome
document.
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Our Guiding Principles
Respect for Mother Earth and the Universe in accordance with Maya cosmovision and ancestral authorities
Respect for all cultures, nations, and faith traditions
Partnerships based on the principles of equality, justice, and reciprocity
Respect for
Indigenous sovereignty,
self-determination,
and governance
including pre-existing Indigenous law, the United Nations Declarations and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Guiding Documents & Philosophies
1. The Maya is a Nation of Nations (a civilization) with accomplishments in mathematics, architecture, medicine, astronomy, agriculture, philosophy and political systems to name a few disciplines that the Maya mastered. While the decline of the Maya during pre colonial era is a matter of discussion among Mayanist scholars, the shattering impact of the Doctrine of Discovery during colonial and post-colonial era is evident.
Learn more about the
Preliminary Study of
the Impact of the Doctrine of Discovery on
Indigenous Peoples
2. Since the colonial era, the Maya have suffered cycles of violence from states occupying Maya territory. One cycle of violence that reached the attention of the international community is the civil war from 1960 to 1996. This cycle of violence reached genocidal levels during the early 1980’s.
Learn more about the
Guatemala Memory of Silence
3. In 1996, the state of Guatemala and the Insurgency signed a Peace Accord but the genocide against the Maya Nation continues; today, entire communities are displaced to give way to transnational corporations and mining industries on Maya territories. The policies of States on Maya territory towards the Maya nation is extermination, exclusion and forced assimilation. Combined, past and current cycles of violence based on the Doctrine of Discovery are at the root causes mass exodus of Indigenous Peoples including the Maya.
Check out the
2019
study done by the Human Rights Council Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous People s
