Cecilio Chi
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Cecilio Chi was a Mayan Indigenous batab, born in the town of Tepich, formerly Yucatán, currently Quintana Roo in Mexico. He was a military leader of the Cruzo 'ob.
Statue of Cecilio Chi in Tepich
Chan Santa Cruz
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Chan Santa Cruz, sometimes referred to as the Maya Free State, was a late 19th-century indigenous Maya state in the modern-day Mexican state of Quintana Roo. It was also the name of a shrine that serv
Cecilio Chi
…until 1901, with the death of all the Mayan leaders. In 1901, the Mexican federal army recovered the last bastion of the Mayan rebels: the town of Chan Santa Cruz. Throughout the struggle that took place, the indigenous leaders and their followers were discredited by the whites, who presented them as bloodthirsty…
Chan Santa Cruz Monument in Cozumel