Multimedia

Photo Credit: Mateo Hinojosa, The Cultural Conservancy

Guatemalan girl with fixed sight and steady pulse. (Photo Credit: Ixquik Poz Salanic, Ki’kotemal)

Cultural exchange through love. (Photo Credit: Isabel Hawkins, Yakanal)

Traditional jarana dance performed by a Yucatec Maya group in Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico. (Photo Credit: Julián Cruz Cortés, Yakanal)

Pueblo youth dance “Buffalo” in Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico. (Photo Credit: Julián Cruz Cortés, Yakanal)

Yucatec Maya women with traditional dress in Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico. (Photo Credit: Russ Bodnar)

Zapotec youth demonstrating the preparation of tejate, a pre-Columbian beverage based on cacao and maize. (Photo Credit: Flavia Trecco, Yakanal)

Zapotec youth filming traditional dances in Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico. (Photo Credit: Julián Cruz Cortés, Yakanal)

Workshop participants learned from each other, for example, about traditional pre-Columbian beverages, such as the South American mate. (Photo Credit: Isabel Hawkins, Yakanal

Models of chultuno’ob—a precolonial, underground Maya system of collecting and preserving rainwater. The models were made by a group of young Maya archaeologists and linguists from Uxmal who participated in the multimedia workshop in Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico. (Photo Credit: Russ Bodnar)

Guatemalan youth conducting an interview. (Photo Credit: Verónica Sacalxot, Ki’kotemal)

Zapotec and Argentinian youth connect in Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. (Photo Credit: Sandy Hernández Aquino, Yakanal)

Multimedia workshop participants learning from a Maya elder about medicinal plants in Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico. (Photo Credit: Carlos Robleda, Yakanal)

Detail of a macaw parrot sculpted in stone in the Great Pyramid, Uxmal Archaeological Site, Yucatan, Mexico. These beautiful birds and their feathers were traded in pre-colonial times for turquoise and other goods from Mesoamerica to the current Southwestern U.S. (Photo Credit: Mateo Hinojosa, The Cultural Conservancy)

The Temple of the Soothsayer, Uxmal Archaeological Site, Yucatan, Mexico. This Maya temple was built in five stages, from 400 to 800 CE. (Photo Credit: Mateo Hinojosa, The Cultural Conservancy)

Pueblo youth interviewing each other at their ancestral site in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, USA. (Photo Credit: Nicola Wagenberg, The Cultural Conservancy)

Directing the production of the video on water in the Yucatan, Mexico. (Photo Credit: Isabel Hawkins, Yakanal)

The Yakanal Indigenous Youth Cultural Exchange group on parade in Valladolid, Yucatan, Mexico. (Photo Credit: Julian Cruz Cortes, Yakanal)

A cenote is a natural sinkhole in certain areas of the Yucatan peninsula. The origin of the word is from the Yucatec Mayan language—ts’onot. They have been important sources of water for thousands of years. (Photo Credit: Diana Hernandez, Yakanal)

Pueblo youth dancing “Eagle” in the Yucatan, Mexico. (Photo Credit: Russ Bodnar)

Celebrating a job well done during the multimedia workshop, New Mexico, USA. (Photo Credit: Mateo Hinojosa, The Cultural Conservancy)

Pueblo youth with traditional manta at the Chaco Canyon ancestral site in New Mexico, USA. (Photo Credit: Nicola Wagenberg, The Cultural Conservancy)

Workshop participants at Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, USA. (Photo Credit: Isabel Hawkins, Yakanal)

Yucatec Maya grandmother and Laguna Pueblo youth at one of the ancestral sites of the Pueblo people of New Mexico, USA. The multimedia workshop took participants to learn from sacred sites of great cultural importance. (Photo Credit: Nicola Wagenberg, The Cultural Conservancy)

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