Endangered Peoples of Latin America
Subtitle: Struggles to Survive and Thrive (Greenwood Press Endangered Peoples of the World)
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2001
Format: Unknown Binding
ISBN-13: 9780313016547
Subjects: History: World
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.