UH-MAY, Mexico – Thousands of Mayan Indians lost homes as Hurricane Dean blew through the Yucatan Peninsula, but their real wealth was the trees, now scattered and broken in the storm’s wake.

Mayan Indians start their families very young. The average age is between 15 and 19 according to statistics from the Guatemalan government. Karina has a 2-year-old.

Scenes of enslaved Maya Indians building temples for a violent, decadent culture in Mel Gibson’s new film “Apocalypto” may ring true for many of today’s Mayas, who earn meager wages in ...

Mayan Indian Women Accuse Military Officials Of Holding Them As Sex Slaves : Goats and Soda After decades of silence, Mayan Indian women come forward with stories of torture and rape during the ...

Mayan Indians were having mixed reactions to Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto" prior to Monday's screening of the movie in Mexico City after viewing bootleg copies of the bloody, pre-Columbian epic set in ...

Efrain Rios Montt , former dictator of Guatemala, was found guilty in the massacre of more than 1,700 Mayan Indians in the early 1980s. Rios Montt, 86, insists that he had no knowledge of the ...

Hundreds of families of Mayan Indians have occupied part of a large nickel mine owned by a Canadian company in Guatemala and demanded they be given land for subsistence farms.

Thousands of Mayan Indians lost homes as Hurricane Dean blew through the Yucatan peninsula, but their real wealth was the trees, now scattered and broken in the storm's wake.