Tasal Hu-Uluul Ch’iich’ Returning Q’eqchi’ Ethnography to the Youth “Leftovers” Movement for Territorial Autonomy in Northern Guatemala

Liza Grandia
Native American Studies
UC Davis

In collaboration with a Q’eqchi’-Mayan peasant federation that opened an Indigenous high school for the youth of their 162 member villages in 2019, this project establishes a digital PDF and print library on Q’eqchi’ culture, agroecology, traditional ecological knowledge, medicinal plants, and Indigenous human rights. Soliciting contributions from the 90+ members of the Q’eqchi’ Scholars Network established by Grandia in 2005, the library provides opportunities for developing future collaborative research projects with Q’eqchi’ youth to engage, critique, review, counter, and/or complement the ethnography written about them.