Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim:
Reinforcing Our Roots, Living Our Maya Heritage
Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim: Reinforcing Our Roots, Living Our Maya Heritage (CMPI) is a 501 C3 organization of the Maya based in Omaha Nebraska. CMPI responds to the highest aspirations of the Maya community in the United States and in traditional Maya Territory in ways consistent with Maya worldview and spirituality and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIPS).
Indigenous peoples have belong 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 systems of have laws and governance that have existed for thousands of years and continue today. Our ancestral authorities and social organization is 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 UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples re-committed themselves to implementing the Declaration.
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 and The United Nations Declarations and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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 and The United Nations Declarations and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
guiding documents & philosophies
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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 |
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 from the United Nations Commission for Historical Clarification |
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 Peoples |
