Lacandon people - Wikipedia
The Lacandon are one of the Maya peoples who live in the jungles of the Mexican state of Chiapas, near the southern border with Guatemala. Their homeland, the Lacandon Jungle, lies along the Mexican side of the Usumacinta River and its tributaries. The Lacandon are one of the most isolated and culturally conservative of Mexico's native peoples.
Lacandon | History, Language, Jungle, & Facts | Britannica
Lacandon, Mayan Indians living primarily near the Guatemala border in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Some Lacandon may live in Belize, across the eastern border of Guatemala. The Lacandon are divisible into two groups, the Northern and Southern Lacandon. Estimates of their population range from 300 to 1,000.
History | Milwaukee Public Museum - MPM
The term "lacandon" was a general term used by the Spanish to describe any unconquered indigenous peoples in the lowlands of Chiapas. The word was derived from an indigenous place name lakam tun, which refers to an island in Lake Miramar and more generally to …
Lacandon Collection | Milwaukee Public Museum - MPM
The Lacandon are an indigenous Maya-speaking people, numbering between 300 and 500 individuals, who live in the Mexican state of Chiapas. They have three principle communities: two northern villages at Najá and Mensabäk, and a southern village at Lacanhá Chan Sayab.
Social Life | Milwaukee Public Museum - MPM
The roots of the indigenous Lacandon religion can be traced back to the ancient Maya. The Lacandon worshipped a complex pantheon of deities relating to nature and the cosmos. Most religious ceremonies related to agriculture, fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, trade, and illness.
Lacandones - Encyclopedia.com
They are slash-and-burn horticulturalists who raise maize, beans, squash, root crops, bananas, and a large variety of plants in their fields and gardens. Additionally, the Lacandon subsist by hunting, fishing, and gathering resources from the surrounding forests.
The Peoples Guide to Mexico:
The Last Lords of Palenque: the Lacandon Mayas of the Mexican Rain Forest by Robert D Bruce and Victor Perera, 1982, Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Robert Bruce is an acknowledged expert on this group of Lacandon Indians, often called the last true Maya, living in the rainforest of Southern Mexico.
People & Culture - DOBES
They are the descendants of Yucatec-speaking refugees who escaped assimilation and extermination during the Spanish Conquest. Protected by their isolation and the hostile nature of the environment, these long-haired, barefooted fugitives preserved, perfected, and passed down their ancient Maya heritage to their children.
Lacandón Indian Tribe - adamsamigos.net
Following the traditions of their ancestors for hundreds of years, the Lacandón men and women are distinguished by their long black hair and white tunics. Living in isolated jungles in a remote corner of Chiapas, Mexico, only about 600 of these pure-blooded remnants of …
Lacandon Village Chiapas Mexico Culture - Trans-Americas Journey
2011年5月31日 · The Lacandon people of Mexico are the descendants of the Mayans who fled from what is now southern Mexico and northern Guatemala in order to escape the Spanish in the 1500s. Since then the Lacandon have survived in an ever-shrinking area of Chiapas called the Lacandon Jungle.
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