Endangered Peoples of Latin America
Subtitle: Struggles to Survive and Thrive (The Greenwood Press "Endangered Peoples of the World" Series)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: February 28, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780313308567
Subjects: Ethnography; Indigenous peoples; Native Americans - History; Social Conflict; History; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Anthropology - Cultural; General; Human Geography; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Discrimination & Racism; Latin America - General; Native American; Government relations; Indians; Indians, Treatment of; Latin America; Social conditions
First sentence: From 1850 to 1901, a group of Yucatec Maya known as the Cruzob or "people of the Cross" refused to be displaced by or incorporated into expanding sugar plantations, defied the Mexican nation, and established a rebel state in the forests in the interior of Quintana Roo, at the time a remote region in the eastern Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.