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Mexico Christmas Traditions & Customs
A brief description of Christmas traditions and customs in Mexico.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Global Edge: Mexico: Introduction
Explore statistics, history, culture, economy, politics, and demographics for the country of Mexico in North America.
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Gulf of Mexico Program: Woodland Cultures (2000 Bc to 1,000 Bc)
This site presents information on the three periods of Woodland Culture. It briefly describes how the Woodland culture began as small villages depending on subsistence farming and hunting. Also describes the move to the mound building...
The Newberry Library
The Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico: Europeans Invade the Aztec Empire
Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes invaded the Aztec empire in the 16th century. This conquest led to the colonization of Mexico. The Newberry Library provides an in depth look into this period of Mexican history through photos,...
Science Museum of Minnesota
Science Museum of Minnesota: Maya Adventure
The Science Museum of Minnesota presents this site that highlights science activities and information related to ancient and modern Maya culture.
The British Museum
British Museum: Explore World Cultures: Aztecs
This is a description and image gallery with piece descriptions for the art of the prehispanic mesoamerican civilization of the Aztecs.
Other
Why Christmas: Christmas Cultures Around the World
A look at the different traditions and ways Christmas is celebrated around the world. Experience Christmas from Australia to Zambia, Italy to China, and many more countries.
Adventure Learning Foundation
Adventure Learning Foundation: Tarahumara Indians
Take a virtual expedition and explore the culture of the Tarahumara Indians in Mexico's Copper Canyon. Features history, maps, lesson plans, and a photo journal.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Biombo With the Conquest of Mexico and View of Mexico City
The influence of Asian art on colonial Latin America is particularly evident in viceregal textiles, ceramics, and furniture. Some examples are the resplendent biombos, or folding screens, made in Mexico beginning in the seventeenth...
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Brooklyn Expedition: Latin America
Excellent site about Latin America from the Brooklyn Children's Museum. Explore ancient beliefs and rituals, celebrations, culture, the land, animals, and the history of Latin America.
Other
Catholic Culture: News: Mexico Population Becoming Elderly
A news article explaining how Mexico's population is expected to increase among elders and decrease in relation to children because fertility rates have decreased over the past 25 years.
Mex Connect
Mexico Connect: Pre Classic Period of the Olmecs
The Formative Period (1500 BCE-300 CE) of Mesoamerican culture is surveyed with an overview of the Olmec culture. Includes discussion of Olmec stone head sculpture, art, building, writing, and other achievements.
Other
New Mexico: Travel and Tourism
Learn about the various areas of the state of New Mexico. View visitor info, outdoor fun, history and culture, facts and trivia.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: New Mexico
"Do you believe in UFO's?" If you answered yes, check out the International UFO Museum and Research Center on this site. Look at the rich history of this state. Find out more about the cultural influences.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of the American Indian: Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art
Explore Mexican Folk Art by looking at different types of material and what they are used to make. Choose from clay, metal, leather, paper, plant fibers, stone, wood, and more.
Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies
Famsi: Dating Cholula, Mexico (2003)
Researchers infer that Cholula construction may have begun at the same time as Great Pyramid in Teotihuacan. Readers are able to download the PDF file.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks
This site takes viewers on a virtual tour through five of the U.S. National Parks: Alaska's Kenai Fjords, Hawaiian Volcanoes, New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns, Utah's Bryce Canyon, and Florida's Dry Tortugas.
Curated OER
National Park Service: Chamizal National Memorial
After a long disagreement over the border between Texas and Mexico as the Rio Grande shifted, the Chamizal Treaty was established in 1963. The Chamizal National Memorial marks the border and stands for peace between two countries, two...
Royal British Colombia Museum (Canada)
Japanese Shipwrecks in British Columbia Myths & Facts
The Royal British Columbia Museum looks at the historical possibility of cultural exchanges between the Japanese and the First Nations Peoples in Canada's Northwest. The site also looks at the validity of stories of shipwrecks in the...
Other
De Young Museum: Art of Mesoamerica (I Notice . . . I Wonder . . . )
Using a green stone mask from the Olmec culture and a wall painting from Teotihuacan, both of prehispanic Mexico, as a point of departure, this pdf article presents examples for the historical analysis of art.
Other
New Mexico Tourism Department: Hispanic History and Culture
A history of Spanish influence in New Mexico is found here. Read about the cultural heritage that the Hispanics instilled in the inhabitants of New Mexico.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Velasco, the Valley of Mexico
"The Valley of Mexico from the Hillside of Santa Isabel" by Velasco represents an important period in the development of Mexico's national identity and an important chapter in the history of Mexican art. Velasco's landscapes became...
Mex Connect
Mex Connect: Upsurge and Massacre in Mexico, 1968
This three-part investigation into the 1968 student massacre in Mexico city prior to the Olympic Games gives insight into their protest movement, the events of the Sad Night, and the lasting effects of the violence 30 years after the...