Open Educational Resources

A curated collection of teaching materials

La creación del hombre (mito maya quiché)

La creación del hombre (mito maya quiché)

Description: This animated video presents the K’iche’ (or Quiché) Maya myth of the creation of human beings, drawn from the Popol Vuh, the foundational text of K’iche’ Maya cosmology. In this account, the gods attempt several times to create...
Masewaltlatzotzontli

Masewaltlatzotzontli

By Jesús Alberto Flores Martínez Description: In the community of Reyixtla, Ixhuatlán de Madero, Veracruz, Celerino Hernández Pascuala and his family continue to preserve traditional Nahua sones, as well as the costumbre known as elotlamanilistli, performed to...
Place-Names in Mexico-Tenochtitlan

Place-Names in Mexico-Tenochtitlan

Description: The place-names that residents of the Mexica capital of Tenochtitlan (today Mexico City) gave to their city were both descriptive of topography and commemorative of history. Largely effaced from the Spanish historical register, Mexico City’s Nahuatl...
El tiempo es Agua

El tiempo es Agua

Description: This short documentary was produced in 2018 by GTANW, IWGIA, Ore-media, and Canejo Producciones. It chronicles the Congress of the Autonomous Territorial Government of the Wampis Nation, held in 2017 in the community of Kandungos, on the Santiago River in...