Maya Tribe

Regions

• Southeastern Mexico
• Guatemala;Belize
• Honduras;Elsalvador

Houses

• They lived in small houses
• Usually with two rooms
• Made of wood
• With thatched roofs

Living Arrangments

• Maya folk medicine includes the ministrations of
• ritual healers called curanderos and female herbalists
• who may double as midwives

Trading

• The economy was a mixed
• capitalist/command free market
• trade and direct.Activities were centered
• around foods like,squash,potatoes,corn,honey,
• beans,turkey,fruits,and chocolate drinks.

Food/Hunting

• Poultry forms the basis of many
• meals- either turkey,which is native to the
• region,or chicken,which was introduced by the  
• spanish.

Celebrations

• Mayan are the holy days of the
• christen calender.Almost all months of the
• year,they have celebrations like festival de sanpedro.

Interesting Facts

• Mayans had over 30 closely related 
• languages and dialects. Mayan had a funketional
• argricturall system,but also indenpendent city-states.