Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim

Through an innovative and indigenous-led model, CMPI and the Q’anjob’al Maya leadership support the estimated 5,000 Q’anjob’al Maya living in Omaha, NE and the estimated 10,000 living in rural Nebraska. CMPI’s mission is to improve the health and well-being of Mayan people through community development strategies in Nebraska and Q’anjob’al Maya territory consistent with the Q’anjob’al Maya system of social organization and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. With our regenerative agriculture, health, arts, education, domestic violence, financial empowerment, and human rights programs, CMPI envisions contributing to the social, cultural and economic vitality of the wider society we live in. 

Feel free to visit our social media for our most recent highlights, news, events, and to keep up with the work we collectively do to protect and promote the human rights of Maya and Indigenous peoples. 

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/pixanixim/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/comunidadmaya 

Also on September 13th, CMPI co-hosted the Indigenous Peoples Summit 2024 alongside the Agrarian Trust where Indigenous leaders from the Great Plains and around the world gathered at the Milo Bail Student Center in Omaha, Nebraska, for a conference to discuss with the community pressing topics about our collective future: Indigenous Peoples Sacred Sites, Land Back, Nations Rebuilding, Economic Development and Sovereignty, Climate Change, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge. https://www.pixanixim.org/2024-indigenous-peoples-summit-summary.html 

Friends, relatives, and new acquaintances came together at the Milo Bail Student Center at the University of Omaha Nebraska on the ancestral land of Uno”ho” Nation. Over 150 attendees brought incredible energy to the full-day conference, and we are so proud of the community of Indigenous Peoples and our allies that showed up to learn from our expert panelists. 

The event was covered by the Nebraska Examiner, highlighting an unfortunate conflict of interests. Despite the inconvenience and avoidant statement by the University of Nebraska Omaha’s administrators, we are still grateful to our UNO partners and we encourage the administration to listen to their guests’, employees’, and students’ feedback regarding the new agreement with their supplier.