Last Cupuls
By:
Dr. Raúl Mendoza Rejón
English Version:
Mrs. Carol Nash
Revisión Técnica de la Versión en Ingles:
Lic. Frank A. Pool Cab E.D.
Coordinador de inglés de la Facultad de Educación de la Universidad Autónoma de
Yucatán.
PREFACE
The Maya as a people and as a culture did not vanish into space. They did not leave and go to Asia or anywhere, for that matter. They did leave the cultural religious centers and returned to small villages where they went on with life growing corn, squash, beans and other vegetables. They hunted deer, pheasants and wild turkey for meat and raised pigs and chickens.
After the Spanish Conquest of the Mayab, life for the individual Maya became increasingly difficult. The "White Spanish" were called "Ts'uul" and held a much higher station in life than the Maya who considered themselves to be Indians or "Máasewaal".
This race distinction exists even today in the Mayab and has been the source of countless battles between the Maya and the "Whites". Even today the distinction is very evident.
The Maya felt persecuted by the Ts'uul, and history shows this to be true. The Ts'uul took land wherever they pleased and the Máasewaal in these areas were collected and put to work for little or no pay.
The Ts'uul built plantations and factories exploiting the labor of the Maya masses. Spanish slavers hauled thousands of Maya to the mines in northern Mexico where most died.
But, the struggle between the races was not merely manifested in forms of near slavery as this was only part of the problem. Besides bringing diseases from Spain that killed entire villages of the Maya, the whites built cities on top of sacred Maya Temples.
They had no understanding of the spiritual life of the Maya. This became a problem that brought the Ts'uul and the Máasewaal to the point of bloodshed, on numerous occasions.
The Maya wanted to hold on to their culture. The culture and lifestyle that had sustained them for thousands of years. So many of the Maya moved away from the Ts'uul. Entire villages pick up and left the lands of their ancestors. As far away from the whites as they could get.
They went into uninhabited parts of the jungle from Guatemala and Belize to the wilds of Chiapas and even into the southern remote lands of Quintana Roo. And there, in these places, they tried to live free from the ever changing world of the Ts'uul.
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Valladolid, Yucatan, 2000
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Last Cupuls
Index
C H A P T E R :
Chapter 1
The Encounter
Chapter 2
Childbirth
Chapter 3
The Town
Chapter 4
The Capture
Chapter 5
Jacinto
Chapter 6
Escape and Sacrifice
Chapter 7
Black Small Pox
Chapter 8
Trip to Belize
Chapter 9
Hunting
Chapter 10
Jancinto and Lola
Chapter 11
Return from Belize
Chapter 12
Day of the holy cross
Chapter 13
The rural teacher
Chapter 14
Trip to Tok'tuunich
Chapter 15
Arriving in the village
Chapter 16
Return to Tok'tuunich
Chapter 17
Chucbac
Chapter 18
Winds of rebellion
Chapter 19
Leonor and Marcelo
Chapter 20
The wedding
Chapter 21
The Jaguar
Chapter 22
Tuluum
Chapter 23
Life and Death
Chapter 24
Presidential Trip
Chapter 25
Cupul Flies
Chapter 26
Medical Brigade
Chapter 27
Tzaab-Kaan
Chapter 28
Credit Bank
Chapter 29
The Highway
Chapter 30
MariJuana
Chapter 31
Elections
Chapter 32
Epilogue
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