![]() Since moving to Spokane, Maria has taken up the Kakchiquel weaving she learned from her mother when she was 10. She also studied economics two years at the University of San Carlos satellite campus in Solola. ![]() As the only one of her six siblings to finish high school, she worked seven years as an accountant for Mayan, grassroots community development projects in rural communities around Lake Atitlan. In 2001, he moved to Spokane where he has a brother. They met when he lived 16 years among the Mayan people in Guatemala. ![]() Her husband, Felipe Gonzales, who grew up in a Mexican family in Texas, shares her commitment to maintaining and restoring indigenous traditions, languages and crafts through his fair trade enterprises and through writing grants for the Kalispel Tribe. Simply by continuing her family tradition of Mayan back-strap weaving Maria Cuc preserves and passes on her cultural identity, heritage and values to her teenage daughters and two-year-old son, even though she now lives in Spokane. Through weaving and education, fair trade and grant writing, one Spokane couple help counteract the effects of the loss of culture, values and land that conquered, indigenous cultures around the world face.
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