Achí
The Achi or Achí are a Mayan ethnic group that is native to Guatemala in the Baja Verapaz department in the municipalities Cubulco , Rabinal , San Miguel , Salamá , San Jerónimo , Purulhá , and parts of Granados and El Chol .
history
The banks of the Río Chixoy belonged to the settlement area of the Achi's . In this area, a reservoir was built in the 1980s, whereby the Achí were expelled or resettled in so-called “model villages”, which were under the supervision of the military. In the Guatemalan civil war killed numerous government troops Achí. They were suspected of collaborating with the guerrillas and, in some cases, violently resisted the eviction from the reservoir area. On March 13, 1982, 177 women and children were murdered in a massacre on the Río Negro.
language
The Achí language is closely related to the Quiché language .
number
In the 2002 census in Guatemala, 105,992 people (0.9%) identified themselves as Achi.
Traditions
Myths of the Achí are passed down in the document Rab'inal Achí ("The Achí Warrior", also called Xajooj Tun , "drum dance"), which was published in Paris in 1862 by Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg .
Web links
- Rab'inal Achí (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guatemala: Río Negro Survivors Identify Executioners
- ↑ XI Censo Nacional de Población y VI de Habitación (Censo 2002) - Pertenencia de grupo étnico . Instituto Nacional de Estadística. 2002. Archived from the original on February 22, 2011. Retrieved on December 22, 2009.