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1. Ancient Mayans

2. Collapse of Ancient Mayan Civilization (Annenberg CPB Project)
   Provides interactive adventures to explore why the ancient Mayan civilization collapsed.

3. Lin, Maya Ying (Gale Group)
   Provides a biography of the artist who created the controversial Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The article includes a picture of her. 6-00

4. Angelou, Maya (InfoPlease.com)
   Provides a biography of the poet and writer. 1-05

5. Mayas - Daily Life (Donn)
   Provides information on the daily lives of the ancient Mayas. Also called Mayans. 03-06

6. Maya Civilization (Wikipedia.org)
   "The Maya civilization is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as its spectacular art, monumental architecture, and sophisticated mathematical and astronomical systems." 1-07

7. New Maya Temple Found, Covered With Giant Faces (National Geographic)
   "Archaeological 'gold mine' illuminates connection between king and sun god." 07-12

8. Angelou, Maya (ABC News)
   Provides an interview with the poet, author, and educator. 05-14

9. Angelou, Maya

10. Ancient History and Philosophy (Multnomah County Library)
    Includes Vikings, Stone Age, and Ice Age, as well as the traditional cultures of the Aztecs, Egyptians, Greeks, Incas, Mayans, Mediterranean, Middle East, and Romans.

11. -Nations of Native Americans M - P (NativeWeb)
    Includes Maasai, Makah, Maliseet, Maori, Mapuche, Mattaponi, Maya, Mechoopda, Menominee, Metis, Mi'kmaw, MicMac, Mingo, Miskitu, Miwok, Mixteca, Mlabri, Mohave, Mohawk, Mohegan, Mohican, Monacan, Montaukett, Muscogee, Nanticokes, Narragansett, Nasion Chamoru, Naticoke, Navajo, Nez Perce, Ngarrindjeri, Nipmuc, Nisga'a, Nungas (Australia), Odawa, Ogoni, Ohiyesa, Ohlone, Ojibwe, Okmulgee (Creek), Omaha, Oneida, Onondaga, Osage, Paiute, Palong, Passamaquoddy, Pawnee, Pehuenche, Penobscot, Pequot, Pima, Piscataway, Pocomoke, Pocumtuck, Pomo, Ponca, Potawatomi, Powhatan, Pueblo, and Puyallup.

12. Castro, Fidel (Biography.com)
    "Cuban revolutionary and political leader, premier and president of Cuba, born August 13, 1927 (several sources say 1926), in MayarÍ on his family’s sugar plantation near Biran, Oriente province, Cuba." 2-05

13. -10-08-05 Hillary Clinton Inducted into the Women's Hall of Fame (MSNBC News)
    "Honored with her were Maya Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., Dr. Rita Rossi Colwell, who became the first female director of the National Science Foundation in 1998, and Betty Bumpers, a crusader for childhood immunizations who was Clinton’s predecessor as Arkansas’ first lady."
    
    " 'I don’t think there has ever been a better time to be a woman than in the United States of America in the 21st century,' Clinton said in an interview." 10-05

14. Ancient Native Americans - Daily Life (Donn)
    Provides information on the daily lives of the ancient Iroquois, Anasazi, Pacific Coastal, Ojibwa/Chippewa, Pueblo, Inuits, Cherokee, Hopi, Far North, Seminole, Apache, Incas, Plains People, Navajo, Mayas, Sioux, California, and Aztecs.

15. What Causes the Seasons? (MSNBC News)
    "The ability to predict the seasons — by tracking the rising and setting points of the sun throughout the year — was key to survival in ancient times. Babylonians, Mayans and other cultures developed complex systems for monitoring seasonal shifts. But it took centuries more to unravel the science behind the seasons." 09-06

16. Sounds of the Ancient Past (MSNBC News)
    "Scientists were fascinated by the ghostly find: a human skeleton buried in an Aztec temple with a clay, skull-shaped whistle in each bony hand."
    
    "But no one blew into the noisemakers for nearly 15 years. When someone finally did, the shrill, windy screech made the spine tingle." 06-08

17. Honduras History and Culture (Excite Travel)
    "There is evidence of Maya settlement since at least 1000 BC at Copan in western Honduras, but like other Maya city-states this was abandoned mysteriously around 900 AD." 10-05