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also known as Qatzijobʼal lit. 'our language' among its speakers), or Quiché, is a Mayan language spoken by the Kʼicheʼ people of the central highlands

historias del origen de los indíos de esta provinçia de Gvatemala, 4) Escolíos a las hístorías de el orígen de los indios [note: spelling is that of Ximénez

by Maldonado, containing important information about the customs of the Quiché peoples at the time of the Spanish invasion. In 1616, Maldonado dedicated

gatherers.[page needed] Sites from around 6500 BC have been discovered in the Quiché department in the Highlands, as well as in Sipacate and Escuintla on the

from west to east, of part of the Guatemalan departments of Huehuetenango, Quiché, Alta Verapaz and the entire department of Izabal. It extends roughly 15

make up the majority of populations in the departments of Baja Verapaz, Quiché, Totonicapán, Huehuetenango, Quetzaltenango, and San Marcos. The Maya people

This led to the blanket term "Indies" and "Indians" (Spanish: indios; Portuguese: índios; French: indiens; Dutch: indianen) for the Indigenous inhabitants

Retrieved 2014-05-18. "Aguacatecos, cakchiqueles, ixiles, kekchíes, tecos, quichés. (Chiapas)". Cdi.gob.mx. Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved

literature Rigoberta Menchú Tum, activist, Nobel prize winner in peace (Quiché) Concepción Ramírez, activist, appears on the Guatemalan 25-centavo coin

alcaldía mayor, with jurisdiction over the province's pueblos de indios. Said pueblos de indios were in turn the jurisdiction of principales, that is, native