El proyecto es posible gracias al financiamiento de una subvención del Título VI Centros Nacionales de Recursos del Departamento de Educación de EE. Ya digitalizada y difundida, esta colección de historias orales está disponible para el público internacional, con lo que promueve y mejora la enseñanza y el aprendizaje mundial de la lengua K'iche' - Maya. James Mondloch y el Instituto Latinoamericano e Ibérico (LAII), el Proyecto de Historia Oral K'iche' Maya consiste en la digitalización y difusión electrónica de más de cien historias orales que fueron recogidas en el oeste de Guatemala durante las décadas 1960 y 1970. Those interested in studying the K’iche’ language will find the audio recordings of the narratives accompanied by their transcriptions a rich source of materials in the language. The narratives in this collection also provide unique insights into the culture of the K’iche’ Maya including their history, social organization, values, beliefs, agricultural practices, and cosmo vision. The online availability of this collection provides to those K’iche’s who are struggling to preserve their language and culture a unique source of material to assist them in their efforts. In the decades since these stories were recorded and transcribed the speakers of the K’iche’ language have come under increasing pressure to integrate into the national Guatemalan culture and to use Spanish as their primary language. The project is made possible with funding from the LAII's US Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center grant.
Now fully digitized, this collection of written and spoken K'iche' Maya is available to audiences worldwide. James Mondloch and the Latin American and Iberian Institute at the University of New Mexico, the K'iche' Maya Oral History Project contains 149 oral histories, which were collected in western Guatemala during the 1960s and 1970s.
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