Below are the endnotes from “A View from Indigenous Peoples” by Mash-Mash and José Guadalupe Gómez (Spring 2014 AQ).
- Qtxutx’Otx means “Mother Earth” in the language of the Maya Mam Nation.
- Mash-Mash, member of the Council of the Maya Mam Nation.
- “Guatemala,” International Labor Organization, Guatemala, OIT, <http://www.ilo.org/Indigenous/Activitiesbyregion/LatinAmerica/Guatemala/lang–es/index.htm> (accessed February 7, 2014).
- This law entered into effect the day after it was promulgated.
- Convencion Americana Sobre Derechos Humanos (Pacto de San José), Departamento de Derecho Internacional, OEA, <http://www.oas.org/dil/esp/tratados_B-32_Convencion_Americana_sobre_Derechos_Humanos.htm> (accessed April 22, 2014).
- Convenio No. 169, Organización Internacional del Trabajo, <http://www.ilo.org/indigenous/Conventions/no169/lang–es/index.htm> (accessed April 22, 2014).
- These include: the Consejo de la Nación Maya Mam, Consejo Quiche del Quiche, Consejo K’iché de Quetzaltenango, Junta Directiva de los 48 Cantones de Totonicapán, Consejo de Autoridades Comunitarias de Momostenango, Asociación indígena de San Francisco El Alto, Asamblea de Pueblos de Huehuetenango, Consejo de Autoridades Maya Ixil, Comunidades Kakchikel de Chimaltenango, Consejo de los pueblos de Tezulutlán, Consejo Chorti’, Consejo de Autoridades de las 12 comunidades de San Juan Sacatepéquez and the Parlamento Xinka. This reconstitution of Indigenous peoples is a fundamental right recognized in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples approved by Guatemala in 2007.
- Elsa Hernandez, Jose Gomez, and Ajb’ee Jimenez’, “La Retoma de Saqulew: La lucha histórica del Pueblo Maya contra la destrucción de la vida y de la Madre Tierra,” Caminos De La Resistencia Maya , DocsFiles, <http://docsfiles.com/pdf_caminos_de_la_resistencia_maya.html> (accessed February 7, 2014).
- Guatemalan Constitutional Court, Case 3878-2007 (Caso San Juan Sacatepéquez), December 21, 2009, pg. 18. <http://indigenouspeoplesissues.com/attachments/article/3990/3990_ResumenSentenciaSJ.pdf> (accessed April 22, 2014).
- Ibid, pg. 27.
- James Anaya, Informe del Relator Especial de Naciones Unidas sobre los derechos de los pueblos indígenas, op. cit., paragraph 17. This is a selected quote from a 41 page document <http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/indigenous/rapporteur/docs/GuatemalaIP16th_AUV.pdf> (accessed April 22, 2014).
- Press release, n°. 33/12, March 27, 2012.
- The Legal Commission is responsible for bringing strategic litigation cases in defense of the collective rights of Indigenous peoples. The majority of commission members are Maya lawyers.
- “Demanda Internacional en contra del Estado de Guatemala,” Consejo del Pueblo Maya, October 3, 2013, <http://www.cpo.org.gt/index.php/articulos/138-demanda-internacional> (accessed April 22, 2014).