Ixil people

Infobox Ethnic group
group = Ixil
population = 95,315 [cite web |url=http://www.ine.gob.gt/Nesstar/Censo2002/survey0/dataSet/dataFiles/dataFile1/var26.html |title= XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Pertenencia de grupo étnico |accessdate=2008-05-27 |publisher=Instituto Nacional de Estadística |date=2002 ]
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languages = Ixil, Spanish
religions = Catholic, Evangelicalist, Maya religion
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Ixil is the name of a Mayan people in Guatemala. The Ixil live in three municipalities in the Cuchumatanes mountains in the northern part of the department El Quiché. These municipalities -also known as the Ixil Triangle- are Santa Maria Nebaj, San Gaspar Chajul, and San Juan Cotzal.

In the early eighties the Ixil Triangle was one of the principal stages for insurgent and counter-insurgent operations in the Guatemalan civil war. As a consequence the Ixil people suffered the brunt of the conflict, particularly after the military adopted an indiscriminate scorched-earth strategy. [cite web | author=Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico (CEH) |title=Guatemala: Memoria del silencio. Agudización de la violencia y militarización del Estado (1979-1985) |publisher= |year=1999 |url=http://shr.aaas.org/guatemala/ceh/mds/spanish/cap1/agud.html ]

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References

: cite book |author=aut|Colby, Benjamin N. & Pierre L. Van Den Berghe |year=1969 |title=Ixil Country: A Plural Society in Highland Guatemala |edition= |format= |url=http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&docId=72526862 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkely |isbn= |oclc= |accessdate=: cite book |author=aut|Colby, Benjamin N. |year=1976 |title=The Anomalous Ixil. Bypassed by the Postclassic? |edition= |format= |url=http://www.jstor.org/pss/279043 |publisher=American Antiquity, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Jan., 1976), pp. 74-80 |location=|isbn= |oclc= |accessdate=: cite book |author=aut|Colby, Benjamin N. & Lore M. Colby |year=1981|title=The Daykeeper: The Life and Discourse of an Ixil Diviner |edition=First |format= |url= |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=0674194098 |oclc= |accessdate=: cite book |author=aut|Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico (CEH) |year=1999|title=Guatemala: Memoria del silencio. |edition=First |format=HTML |url=http://shr.aaas.org/guatemala/ceh/mds/spanish/toc.html |publisher= |location=Guatemala |isbn=99922-54-00-9 |oclc= |accessdate=

External links

* http://www.nebaj.org/

ee also

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