Since the Spanish conquistadors arrived in Mexico in 1519, the story of that country's indigenous people has largely been told by others....
But in 1992 a small organization in Chiapas, Mexico's poorest state, began to correct this imbalance by providing cameras and basic photography instruction to the local Maya Indians, many of whom could be descendants of those who were depicted by outsiders in the past.Cool story at
The New York Times.# posted by
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