[Aztlan] Belize Maya Land Claims

[diniz conefrey]

Dear listeros

I would like to share a short commentary about this very interesting and
pertinent subject, although I'm not actually an archaeologist. In fact my
working field is illustration and comics, been personally committed in the
last years developing themes about Pre Colombian cultures, that is a central
interest in my life for a long time. When I started the comic project
Tonalamatl-The Book of Days I decided to take a difficult step in taking the
perspective view of the Mexica. This led me to México, were I visited
several sites and institutions to collect information. In reality I always
had the strong feeling, even more today, that the Pre Colombian history has
its strong ties linked to indigenous populations, much widely that the
national institutions of recent nations. The American continent, alongside
with Australia, where the only ones who were invaded by the Europeans and
not returned to their original populations; even the mestizos populations
live according to eastern values today. Although this is a very complex
issue, in my personal opinion, history in the Americas cannot be view simply
without the deeply storm of violence imposed on their destiny, as our recent
history tend to do in the case of the Jewish people... This is not only the
case of studying and researching an interesting past, appropriating their
values and seeking our own recognition in specific working fields. It bears
with it a larger consciousness of history that links archaeological data
with breathing live, and in the case of the Maya people it is most obviously
that our abstract institutions and values continue to deny them their
original "Florescence of White Consciousness"

My best regards

Diniz Conefrey