Indigenous Archives analyzes the modes through which young Guatemalan Mayas in Los Angeles and Guatemala make sense of and respond to transnational structures of settler colonialism. Drawing on in-depth analysis of cultural production and interviews with Guatemalan Maya youth and young adults, Floridalma Boj Lopez examines how Mayas in diaspora craft and circulate narratives about their experiences across borders. Citing a more active practice of “archives in formation,” Boj Lopez depicts Indigenous archives as a cross-generational, collective conversation rooted in memory, survival, and cultural expression where Indigenous cultural practices and artifacts move, adapt, and assert their presence in the contemporary. Indigenous Archives invites readers to consider Indigeneity as a process, lived experience, and historical perspective, rather than as a static identity, and shows how extending analysis across borders is critical to understanding Latinidad and Indigeneity.

Floridalma Boj Lopez is Assistant Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Foreword / Oscar Ubaldo Boj Chojolán
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Contesting the Logics of Displacement in the Production of the Indigenous Migrant
2. Weaving Maya Geographies, Textiles, and Relationality in Diaspora
3. La Comunidad Ixim and Organizing in the Maya Diaspora
4. Returning the Gaze, Reclaiming the Image: Contemporary Photography as Archive Making
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index