Online books - History
Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel historical perspectives : xkib’ij kan qate’ qatata’ by Publication Date: 2001E-book. Licensed for all KU students, faculty and staff connecting to the Internet.
Table of Contents 1. Town Origins
2. Land, Labor, and Integration
3. Epidemics
4. Natural Disasters
5. Education, Exclusion, and Assertiveness
6. Kaqchikel in the Military
7. Ubico’s Legacy
8. Leaders
9. Ethnic Relations
Timeline of Guatemalan Presidents from 1831.- What Prize Awaits Us : letters from Guatemala byPublication Date: 1988"From 1977 to 1983 Bernice Kita lived and worked in an isolated Indian village in Guatemala. These are the poignant and gripping letters she sent home to her parents and friends. Kita opens our eyes to the life and lore of the Mayans of the Guatemalan highlands." (Goodreads) Print copy available through KU Libraries.
- El "Memorial de Sololá" y los inicios de la colonización española en Guatemala byPublication Date: 2004
Clothing & Textiles
Huipil, Kaqchikel Maya, Patzún (Textile Museum of Canada)
- Weaving identities : construction of dress and self in a highland Guatemala town byPublication Date: 1995E-book. Available via the Internet. Licensed for all KU students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet.
- TRAJES TÍPICOS GUATEMALTECOS DE LUJOTypical luxury Guatemalan clothing made by hand. In Spanish.
- Weaving beautiful huipilTeysha Shoes works with amazing artisans throughout Latin America to create handcrafted treasures. Here, Maria in Santa Catarina, Guatemala, shows us how she weaves her incredible huipil textiles. See more at www.teysha.world.
- Estudio etnográfico de las Payas de Patzún, Chimaltenango byPublication Date: 1991Cakchikel embroidery.
Online access - During the COVID-19 crisis, this item is available online via Hathi Trust. Licensed to authorized users, KU students and faculty. Print copy available through KU Libraries.
Music in Kaqchikel
- Melodies of resistance in Guatemala: the Kaqchikel artist speaking out through song"When Sara Curruchich sings, she sings not only for herself but also for the generations of Indigenous women who came before her and the generations that will come after her. Sara is Kaqchikel, a Mayan peoples native to the midwestern highlands of Guatemala. Through her music, she celebrates her Indigenous heritage and highlights her female ancestors’ resilience in the face of oppression."
Malala.org 2019
Kaqchikel - General information
Wikiguate - Los CakchiquelesUna enciclopedia en línea sobre Guatemala.
- KaqchikelEncyclopaedia Britannica.
- Guatemala: Information on the Cakchiquel native group and their treatment by the armed forcesRefworld. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Food
- Blue Corn Chowder2010. Blog. Discussion about the importance of corn in the Guatemalan culture.
- Ethnomycological knowledge among Kaqchikel, indigenous Maya people of Guatemalan HighlandsJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2019.
Online video materials
- Ixcanul = VolcánAvailable online through Kanopy, a streaming video on-demand service which provides access to educational films. Licensed for all KU students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet. Search by title.
- Cakchiquel Maya of San Antonio PalopóVideo available online through Alexander Street Press database. Licensed for all KU students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet. In English.
Social life, customs, education, and religion
In This Body : Kaqchikel Maya and the grounding of spirit by Publication Date: 2015Electronic book. Available via the Internet. Licensed for all KU students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet.
- STATES OF HEART: An ethnohistorical approach to Kaqchikel Maya ethnopsychology"This article examines early colonial Kaqchikel Maya notions of the self, souls, and the heart. By integrating ethnohistorical data and contemporary ethnographic observations, we show that Kaqchikeles viewed the self as contingent on a dynamic balance of cosmic forces acting on the individual. The ways in which these forces are seen to effect one's state of being are documented through an extensive discussion of Kaqchikel metaphors of the heart and soul.
- Comadre Work: Grassroots Feminism in a Kaqchikel Maya TownArticle by Joyce Bennett in Journal of International Women's Studies, June 2019.
- Cultural logics and global economics : Maya identity in thought and practiceOnline access. Edward F. Fischer. 2001.
E-book licensed for all KU students, faculty and staff connecting to the Internet. - Transnational Migration's Psychosocial Impacts for Kaqchikel Maya Migrants' WivesArticle by Meghan Farley Webb (2018). Human Organization. Licensed for all KU students, faculty, and staff connecting to the Internet.
- Tackling Illiteracy with Bilingual EducationChild Aid blog.
- Colonial Cakchiquels : highland Maya adaptations to Spanish rule, 1600-1700 byPublication Date: 1992Online access - During the COVID-19 crisis, this item is available online via Hathi Trust. Licensed to authorized users, KU students and faculty. Print copy available through KU Libraries.
- Memoria de mi pueblo, Santa Catarina Palopó byPublication Date: 1992Texts in Spanish and Cakchikel.
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Indigenous Literature and Art
Heart of Heaven, Heart of Earth and Other Mayan Folktales by Publication Date: 1999Online access - During the COVID-19 crisis, this item is available online via Hathi Trust. Licensed to authorized users, KU students and faculty. Print copy available through KU Libraries.
- Ajtz'ib' - Escritores de ComalapaFacebook page - Colectivo Ajtz’ib’ está conformado por hombres y mujeres amantes de la literatura y del arte en todas sus manifestaciones, amigos construyendo anhelos en comunidad.
La diversidad es la fortaleza del colectivo y por ello alberga a personas de diferentes edades y formas de pensar que aman la vida y se expresan por medio del arte para dejar un legado a las futuras generaciones.
- Rub’is jun mayab’ = Tristeza de un maya byPublication Date: 1994Cakchikel and Spanish. "Poesía en idioma maya kaqchikel con traducción al castellano."
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Annals of the Cakchiquels
- Project Gutenberg's "The Annals of the Cakchiquels" by Daniel G. BrintonAvailable online.
The original text, with a translation, notes and introduction by Daniel G. Brinton.
1885, Philadelphia. English and Kaqchiquel.
- The annals of the Cakchiquels: the original text, with a translation, notes, and introd. byPublication Date: Reprint of the 1885 ed.Reprint of the 1885 ed., which was issued as no. 6 of the Library of aboriginal American literature. Cakchikel and English.
The annals were written by a number of native authors including Francisco Hernández Arana Xajilá and Francisco Díaz Gebuta Quej.
Includes bibliographical references.
- Anales de los CakchiquelesOnline version available through Hathi Trust during COVID-19 crisis. Print version available through KU Libraries.
Attributed to Francisco Hernandez Arana Xajila y Francisco Diaz Gebuta Quej. Print version available at KU Libraries.