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CMPI Past Events and News Features
2020
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2020
Mayan Hieroglyphics 101 Online Event
November 17, 2020
Online premier of EPIC: A Popul Vuh Play dedicated to Daniel Maya and panel discussion
2019
This article by Leo Adam Biga from El Perico, describes the efforts of the Maya People in Omaha to exercise the political and spiritual sovereignty dimension of its Identity.
https://leoadambiga.com/tag/omaha-maya-community/
https://issuu.com/thereader_elperico/docs/7.4.19filescombined -El Perico pdf version
El Perico May 30th 2019 . Interview from Ellen Struve about collaboration with CMPI in the play EPIC
https://issuu.com/thereader_elperico/docs/5.30.19filescombined
2018
In September 2018, CMPI was instrumental in facilitating a summit between the Akateko, Chuj, Popti and Q’anjob’al Maya Government. This historic summit between two Indigenous Peoples Governments were supported by allies including Cultural Survival, The Guatemala Human Rights Commision, (GHRC), the Network in Solidarity With Guatemala (NISGUA) and Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim. Below is an article by NISGUA.
2017
Indigenous Peoples Self Determination -Mayans in Omaha. 2017
https://nisgua.org/accompanier-perspectives-from-huehuetenango-to-omaha-ne/
2015
When Students Become Teachers. Creighton University 2015
https://www.creighton.edu/creightonmagazine/2015fallunewsmedstudentsmaya/
Q’anjob’al Maya nation and Omaha Nation establish diplomatic relationship 2015
2014
GHRC visits Qanjobal Community in Omaha, NE August 13,2014
https://ghrcusa.wordpress.com/tag/omaha/
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples Conference: Summary and Reflections , by Dr. John Stone and Luis Marcos
http://www.creighton.edu/fileadmin/user/CHPE/Focus_pdfs/fall-2014.pdf
2013
In 2013, CMPI organized the first International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples Conference. This was in Collaborative Efforts with what was then the Native American Studies Program under Creighton University’s Department of Anthropology. The primary objective of the Conference was to explore ways to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN-DRIPS). This article below describes the need for Maya Languages to be recognized by social service institutions and the efforts of CMPI to address the need for Maya Language Interpreters. The Interpreters training took place in parallel to the 2013 International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim and University Researchers: Partnering in Community Health Development
Luis Marcos, M. Rosales, Alexander Rödlach, John Stone
https://sfaajournals.net/doi/abs/10.17730/praa.34.1.w8n1x25305v0735l
2012
Maya Health Assessment study 2012
https://www.creighton.edu/fileadmin/user/AllThingsIgnatian/Posters2012/61%20Maya.pdf