Not to be confused with the historic Lakandon Chʼol people.
Ethnic group
Lacandon
Hach Winik
Photograph of Lacandons published by Teoberto Maler in 1901
Total population
Mexico: approx 1,000
Regions with significant populations
Mexico (Lacandon Jungle in Northeastern Chiapas) and Petén, Guatemala
Languages
Lacandón, Spanish, some words in other Mayan Languages (Ch'ol, Tzeltal)
Religion
Protestant, traditional belief system, some Catholic influences
Related ethnic groups
Maya peoples
The Lacandon are one of the Maya peoples who live in the jungles of the Mexican state of Chiapas, near the southern border with Guatemala. Their homeland, the Lacandon Jungle, lies along the Mexican side of the Usumacinta River and its tributaries. The Lacandon are one of the most isolated and culturally conservative of Mexico's native peoples. Almost extinct in 1943, today their population has grown significantly, yet remains small, at approximately 650 speakers of the Lacandon language.
The Lacandon are one of the Maya peoples who live in the jungles of the Mexican state of Chiapas, near the southern border with Guatemala. Their homeland...
The Lacandon Jungle (Spanish: Selva Lacandona) is an area of rainforest which stretches from Chiapas, Mexico, into Guatemala. The heart of this rainforest...
Lacandon may refer to: the Lacandonpeople, one of the contemporary Maya peoples the Lakandon Ch'ol, a historic Maya people the Lacandon language, the...
language spoken by all of the 1,000 Lacandonpeople in the state of Chiapas in Mexico. Within Chiapas, Lacandon is spoken in Betel, Lacanjá San Quintín...
particularly in the oral tradition of the Lacandonpeople, there is only one death god (called "Kisin" in Lacandon), who acts as the antipode of the Upper...
the native Lacandonpeople, and the various ecological reserves for land. It is estimated that only ten percent of the original Lacandon rainforest in...
Maya religion. The names are mainly taken from the books of Chilam Balam, Lacandon ethnography, the Madrid Codex, the work of Diego de Landa, and the Popol...
the 1950s and 1960s, other people (mainly the Maya and subsistence peasants from the highlands), also entered into the Lacandon region; initially encouraged...
movement considers Jesus to be a teacher of “Science of Mind”. The Lacandonpeople of Central America acknowledge Äkyantho', the god of foreigners. He...
generally supportive of putting them in conflict with the area’s native Lacandonpeople and environmental groups. The Tzeltal call themselves Winik atel, which...
A Hawaiian term for it was Kaulua-koko ("brilliant red star"). The Lacandonpeople of Central America knew it as chäk tulix ("red butterfly"). Astronomy...
leg had been severed with a cutlass by the maiden Bįhi (Sirius). The Lacandonpeople of southern Mexico knew it as tunsel ("little woodpecker"). Rigel was...
truth in other sources can be identified via personal revelation. The Lacandonpeople of Central America acknowledge Äkyantho', the god of foreigners. He...
hierarchy and its temples are influenced by Catholic churches. The Lacandonpeople of Central America acknowledge Äkyantho', the god of foreigners. He...
finally to Lacandon. The Lakandon Chʼol of the time of the Spanish conquest should not be confused with the modern Yucatec-speaking Lacandonpeople occupying...
Indigenous peoples of Mexico (Spanish: gente indígena de México, pueblos indígenas de México), Native Mexicans (Spanish: nativos mexicanos) or Mexican...
seven languages,[citation needed] among them Lacandon, the Mayan dialect still spoken by the Lacandonpeople of Chiapas. He died in Bignor, West Sussex...
the Mexican government, Trudi Duby was photographing members of the Lacandonpeople, the only Maya never conquered or converted by the Spanish. From then...
The Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle (Spanish: Sexta Declaración de la Selva Lacandona) was a manifesto issued by the Zapatista Army of National...
(Brot, 1872) (junior synonym) One of the Maya peoples, the Lacandonpeople, now Mexico's native peoples from state Chiapas, use Pachychilus indiorum,...
the Mayan family of languages, comprising four languages, namely, Itzaj, Lacandon, Mopan, and Yucatec. The languages are presently extant in the Yucatán...
influence in the country, with many people who may be considered "White" identifying with it. This has caused many people who may not qualify as "Mestizos"...
Army of National Liberation (EZLN) issued the First Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle, which declared that the government of Mexico and President Gortari...
with Itza and Kowoj refugees into the Lacandon forest, where they became the ancestors of the modern Lacandonpeople. Jones 2000, p. 353. Chávez Gómez 2006...
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