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de la Torre Lopez, Antonio – Cultural Survival Quarterly, 1998
In Chiapas (Mexico), the public schools call themselves bilingual, but in reality they consider traditional languages inferior and teach only in Spanish. Sna Jtz'ibajom, a Chiapas group that preserves Mayan culture through oral and written literature, founded a community school that has taught over 2,000 men, women, and children to read and write…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Cultural Maintenance, Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Change
