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Our sacred ma?z is our mother, indigeneity and belonging in the Americas, Roberto Cintli Rodr?guez ; with Ver?nica Castillo Hern?ndez, Maestra Angelbertha Cobb, Luz Mar?a de la Torre, Paula Domingo Olivares, Tata Cuaxtle F?lix Evodio, Mar?a Molina Vai Sevoi, Francisco Pos, Alicia Seyler, and Irma Tzirin Socop

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-241) and index

illustrations

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non fiction

Our sacred ma?z is our mother

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Roberto Cintli Rodr?guez ; with Ver?nica Castillo Hern?ndez, Maestra Angelbertha Cobb, Luz Mar?a de la Torre, Paula Domingo Olivares, Tata Cuaxtle F?lix Evodio, Mar?a Molina Vai Sevoi, Francisco Pos, Alicia Seyler, and Irma Tzirin Socop

indigeneity and belonging in the Americas

"If you want to know who you are and where you come from, follow the ma?z. That was the advice given to author Roberto Cintli Rodriguez when he was investigating the origins and migrations of Mexican peoples in the Four Corners region of the United States. Follow it he did, and his book Our Sacred Maíz Is Our Mother changes the way we look at Mexican Americans. Not so much peoples created as a result of war or invasion, they are people of the corn, connected through a seven-thousand-year old ma?z culture to other Indigenous inhabitants of the continent. Using corn as the framework for discussing broader issues of knowledge production and history of belonging, the author looks at how corn was included in codices and Mayan texts, how it was discussed by elders, and how it is represented in theater and stories as a way of illustrating that Mexicans and Mexican Americans share a common culture. Rodriguez brings together scholarly and traditional (elder) knowledge about the long history of ma?z/corn cultivation and culture, its roots in Mesoamerica, and its living relationship to Indigenous peoples throughout the continent, including Mexicans and Central Americans now living in the United States... "--, Provided by publisher