Mayan Indians

A community that is somewhat interesting to me and that I would be willing to explore is the Mayan Indians. I come in contact with Mayan Indians whenever I visit my family in Guatemala because they make up much of the population there. The Mayan Indians are also located in the Yucatan Peninsula as well as throughout the South East of Mexico. I have only personally experienced seeing the Mayan Indians in Guatemala, but many of them are very poor and rely on making and selling crafts as their living. Every time we travel to Guatemala we visit a Mayan Indian community about an hour from where my family lives and we spend the day walking around their markets and looking at all the different goods that they have hand-made. They rely very much on their selves for everything they do, including building a place to live. These Mayan Indians are very easy to pick out of a crown in Guatemala because their skin is much darker than just the average Hispanic Guatemalan native. This community would be very interesting for me to research because I have come in contact with these types of people, and their way of life is very natural and interesting to me.