Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lawsuit is seeking personhood status for the Ring of Cenotes, a group of hundreds of subterranean lakes in Mexico’s Yucatan ...

HOMUN, Mexico (AP) — A huge poplar tree stands proud in Maribel Ek’s courtyard, adorned with a sign that reads: “Florece desde adentro” (“It blooms from within”). Deep underground, the tree’s long ...

The design for the proposed Maya Museum in Guatemala (via Harry Gugger Studio website) “We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos,” Maya human rights activist Rigoberta Menchú said in ...

A new paper in the journal Child Development shows how some aspects of family interaction among Indigenous people in Guatemala have fundamentally shifted with rapid globalization, yet families have ...

Within the Bay Area's Hispanic community is a group of indigenous Maya people from Guatemala and Mexico whose first language is not Spanish, but a native language called Mam. It is fundamentally ...