Maya Health Assessment Study
Read about the Maya Health Assessment Study
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Conducted for the first time from 2017-2019, this study is a tool to understand the health status of the Maya community in Omaha, Nebraska. The understanding it provides positions us to implement evidence-based health promotion and health intervention programs that will improve the health, access to healthcare and the general well-being of Maya people.
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2022 Annual APPEAL: 2022 Annual Appeal Fundraising Campaign
Your gift can make an impact in the Maya
community!
A Message from CMPI Co-Executive Directors Luis Marcos and Carolina Martin
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November 8, 2022
Dear Friends and Relatives,
2022 has been a year of amazing, unprecedented growth for Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim (CMPI) and
equally impactful service to local, national, and global Maya peoples. While over 10 to 15 million Maya
people are living in Maya Territories: Guatemala, southern Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, and western Honduras
ーand millions displaced elsewhere, including the United States ー we are still invisible to many. Yet, we are
still here.
Maya people are alive and thriving... Read more HERE
To ensure your gift is received by December 31, 2022, GIVE NOW!
Read the full message from Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim’s Co-Executive Directors by clicking below.
Dear Friends and Relatives,
2022 has been a year of amazing, unprecedented growth for Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim (CMPI) and
equally impactful service to local, national, and global Maya peoples. While over 10 to 15 million Maya
people are living in Maya Territories: Guatemala, southern Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, and western Honduras
ーand millions displaced elsewhere, including the United States ー we are still invisible to many. Yet, we are
still here.
Maya people are alive and thriving... Read more HERE
To ensure your gift is received by December 31, 2022, GIVE NOW!
Read the full message from Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim’s Co-Executive Directors by clicking below.
MAYA CALENDAR
Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim uses the Maya Calendar. The Maya Calendar is the most advanced calendar system known to the world. Our sophisticated and highly advanced scientific and mathematical knowledge holds knowledge that is deeply valuable to our global family. We encourage you to consult the Maya calendar and Maya calendar keepers and hope that the positive energies of this sacred day are with you.
Click Here to learn more about the glyphs and meaning of the Maya calendar
(Please note that only spanish version is available for now)
Maya & Indigenous People's Human Rights
The Maya & Indigenous Human Rights Program (MIHRP) is a Maya and Indigenous led program focused on the rights of Maya and Indigenous Peoples in the U.S. and in our ancestral territories.
Our main office is located in Omaha Nation Territory and we have Maya and Indigenous advocates in Omaha, NE, Los Angeles, CA, San Diego, CA, and Arizona at the U.S. - Mexico Border Region. We enjoy strong reciprocal relationships with the Omaha Tribe and other Indigenous nations, relatives, and friends in the north to south and east to west.
The Maya & Indigenous Human Rights Program has three main programs and areas of focus:
1. Maya & Indigenous led immigration legal services;
2. Maya led civic engagement in Omaha, the State of Nebraska, and nationally; &
3. Maya led human rights law projects in Maya Territories.
Our main office is located in Omaha Nation Territory and we have Maya and Indigenous advocates in Omaha, NE, Los Angeles, CA, San Diego, CA, and Arizona at the U.S. - Mexico Border Region. We enjoy strong reciprocal relationships with the Omaha Tribe and other Indigenous nations, relatives, and friends in the north to south and east to west.
The Maya & Indigenous Human Rights Program has three main programs and areas of focus:
1. Maya & Indigenous led immigration legal services;
2. Maya led civic engagement in Omaha, the State of Nebraska, and nationally; &
3. Maya led human rights law projects in Maya Territories.
LEGAL SERVICES
We are the first and only Maya and Indigenous led immigration legal services program in the United States, perhaps the world.
Find out more!
Find out more!
WE REPRESENT MAYA AND INDIGENOUS MIGRANTS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.
EMAIL US AT [email protected] TO APPLY FOR LEGAL SERVICES
SOCIAL SERVICES
Holistic Services for Maya and Indigenous Migrants
The beauty of our legal program is that Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim also has existing holistic programs and services. Maya and Indigenous migrants seeking legal services are also able to access services through our Maya Regeneration Program, the Maya Health Initiative, Maya Arts & Culture Program, and our Maya Education Initiative. Maya and Indigenous migrants are able to gain a sense of belonging and community through participating in these programs. Our community garden grows our traditional foods and medicines and offers opportunities for land based education and healing for community members who have suffered trauma. The Maya Health Initiative and our relationships with the Creighton University Medical School allow us to refer clients for counseling that can address trauma and support their petitions for humanitarian immigration benefits. At the same time, clients can seek assistance in learning English and preparing for citizenship testing through our Maya Education Initiative. Many Maya and Indigenous migrants arrive to the U.S. as refugees who have fled persecution and torture and we are able to respond to their needs in their language, with cultural knowledge, observing Indigenous protocols, and respect for Indigenous world views and spirituality. We are trusted within our community and able to distribute resources to families in our community who suffer economic hardship like Maya migrants working in meat packing plants in Nebraskas who suffer because of COVID-19 or for other reasons. These holistic services delivered with Maya approaches set us apart from any other organizations providing legal services in the U.S.
MAYA HUMAN RIGHTS IN MAYA TERRITORY
Maya Territories are occupied by settler colonial governments that have for centuries subjected Maya and other Indigenous Peoples to violence, persecution, torture, and genocide. Although the Accord for a Firm and Lasting Peace was signed on December 29, 1996 by the Government of Guatemala and the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG), Maya and Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala continue to suffer unjust criminalization, persecution, torture, and genocidal practices. We are denied any meaningful participation in Guatemalan society or government. We face severe discrimination and our children are still denied education and basic healthcare form Guatemalan institutions. Today, we fight against government and foreign investor supported resource extraction projects that are destroying and contaminating our ancestral lands without prior informed consent. Government officials working with private actors from corporations seeking to extract resources use private and state security forces to kill, torture, criminalize, and forcibly displace Maya and Indigenous Peoples from our ancestral lands so that they can exploit our sacred lands. Indigenous human rights defenders, land defenders, and water protectors are some of the most vulnerable to politically motivated criminalization, torture, and killing. The forcible displacement, state-sponsored violence, and severe discrimination is what drives many of our relatives to migrate north seeking asylum and humanitarian protections in the U.S.
As Indigenous Peoples that belong to the land we were made from, we can never forget or leave our ancestral lands and relationships behind. We will always be connected to our ancestral lands even when we are forcibly and violently displaced. Therefore, we are spiritually, politically, and socially obligated to work to protect our lands and relations in Maya Territories. Along with our partners, we have supported efforts to bring international attention to the criminalization, state-sponsored violence, and murders of Indigenous land defenders and water protectors fighting against mining and resource extraction projects in Maya Territories. Last year, we joined partners like NISGUA, the Maya League, and the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) in international advocacy efforts to end the dangerous Asylum Cooperative Agreements ("ACAs"). We ask you to learn about these issues by following our work and reading about our elders like Abuelo Rigoberto Juarez pictured above. We are committed to:
As Indigenous Peoples that belong to the land we were made from, we can never forget or leave our ancestral lands and relationships behind. We will always be connected to our ancestral lands even when we are forcibly and violently displaced. Therefore, we are spiritually, politically, and socially obligated to work to protect our lands and relations in Maya Territories. Along with our partners, we have supported efforts to bring international attention to the criminalization, state-sponsored violence, and murders of Indigenous land defenders and water protectors fighting against mining and resource extraction projects in Maya Territories. Last year, we joined partners like NISGUA, the Maya League, and the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) in international advocacy efforts to end the dangerous Asylum Cooperative Agreements ("ACAs"). We ask you to learn about these issues by following our work and reading about our elders like Abuelo Rigoberto Juarez pictured above. We are committed to:
- Support the legal defense of Maya people criminalized in Maya Territory for their defense of land, territory, sovereignty, human rights, and natural resources.
- Bringing to justice the state of Guatemala for committing genocide and other crimes against the Akateko, Chuj, Popti, Q’anjob’al, and other Indigenous Peoples during the internal armed conflict, colonial periods, and for genocide. We seek legally binding agreements on collective compensation for victims in our traditional homelands and the U.S.
- Provide advocacy, legal representation, documentation, and collective litigation to support Akateko, Chuj, Popti and Q’anjob’al people who have had their rights violated by the U.S.
Currently, we have Maya staff working in Maya Territory and we work with Maya ancestral authorities, elders, leadership, Maya attorneys, and community members to address current issues in Maya Territory. We are seeking funding to establish a transnational collective legal defense strategy for Maya people in our traditional homeland and in the United States. This would allow us to gain agency and voice in the assertion of our human rights across borders and to demand greater respect for our rights through litigation. We believe that Maya peoples have the right to stay home and remain in our ancestral homelands; the land we belong to and love. We can only realize peace in our homelands when our human rights, sovereignty, and self-determination are honored.
Indigenous Nation to Nation Relationship Building
MAYA CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Maya & Indigenous Advocacy & Grassroots Organizing
Our civic engagement efforts include our goal to have our sovereignty and self-determination respected and honored in Maya Territory and the U.S. We also seek to advance harmonization of the United Nations (UN) Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples under the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP) with state government law and policy across borders. We work in collaboration with academic institutions, Indigenous people's governments, and contemporary state governments to achieve this.
We train Maya and Indigenous legal advocates to engage in policy and advocacy work so that we have representation and voice in any issues that impact our communities. We are training legal advocates from our community to engage with the legislative process at the local, state, and federal level or anywhere where our rights are implicated. CMPI enjoys relationships and partnerships with Nebraska and U.S. based organizations addressing access to power and resources including Indigenous collectives, national migrants' rights collaboratives, and environmental justice organizations. CMPI works with many community partners to address disparities and racial justice including, the Nebraska Civic Engagement Table and the Nonprofit Association of the Midlands.
As trusted community advocates, Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim has collaborated with local, state, and federal government agencies to perform community outreach and engagement on important issues impacting Maya community members. In 2020, CMPI collaborated with the U.S. Census Bureau to garner support and participation in the 2020 Census. Also, CMPI encouraged Maya community members to register to vote and assisted community in showing up at the polls to vote in the 2020 elections. We lead community engagement efforts in Maya languages and government, educational, and non-government organizations depend on us to perform outreach in our community.
We train Maya and Indigenous legal advocates to engage in policy and advocacy work so that we have representation and voice in any issues that impact our communities. We are training legal advocates from our community to engage with the legislative process at the local, state, and federal level or anywhere where our rights are implicated. CMPI enjoys relationships and partnerships with Nebraska and U.S. based organizations addressing access to power and resources including Indigenous collectives, national migrants' rights collaboratives, and environmental justice organizations. CMPI works with many community partners to address disparities and racial justice including, the Nebraska Civic Engagement Table and the Nonprofit Association of the Midlands.
As trusted community advocates, Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim has collaborated with local, state, and federal government agencies to perform community outreach and engagement on important issues impacting Maya community members. In 2020, CMPI collaborated with the U.S. Census Bureau to garner support and participation in the 2020 Census. Also, CMPI encouraged Maya community members to register to vote and assisted community in showing up at the polls to vote in the 2020 elections. We lead community engagement efforts in Maya languages and government, educational, and non-government organizations depend on us to perform outreach in our community.
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