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405: 230: 17: 452:(c. AD 600–900), the approximate date of their division into separate peoples is unknown. The Kejache separation may have occurred due to either continued Itza migration to Petén during the Postclassic period (c. 900–1697) or because internal warfare caused them to divide. It is possible that the Kejache had occupied their territory since the Classic period and they may have been descendants of the inhabitants of the prominent 1275: 123:. The precise geopolitical extent of the Kejache is poorly understood, and no archaeological surveys of the Kejache territory have taken place. The Kejache territory consisted of a region of low hills with wide valleys that form swamplands during the rainy season, the region is also characterised by a number of small lakes, such as Lake Moku, Lake Silvituk and Chan Laguna. 495:
Tiac was even larger and was fortified with walls, watchtowers and earthworks; the town itself was divided into three individually fortified districts. Tiac was said to have been at war with the unnamed smaller town. The Kejache claimed that their towns were fortified against the attacks of their aggressive Itza neighbours. In 1531
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region of what is now northern Guatemala for a considerable time before being displaced by Itza expansion into the area north and northwest of the Itza kingdom. The Kejache province was frequently at war with the Itza and the two territories were separated by a deserted no-man's land. The Kejache are
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and reported that the Kejache towns were situated in easily defensible locations and were often fortified. One of these was built on a rocky outcrop near a lake and a river that fed into it. The town was fortified with a wooden palisade and was surrounded by a moat. Cortés reported that the town of
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The Kejache, as described by the Spanish, were poorer than neighbouring Maya peoples, using wood and thatch as building materials and lacking material resources. Kejache weapons consisted of short spears and bows and arrows; apparently they did not use shields, unlike their neighbours. The Kejache
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to Lake Petén Itzá. By the first decades of the 17th century, the Kejache town of Tzuktok became the southern frontier of Spanish missionary efforts from Yucatán. By that time, Tzuktok had a mixed population of native Kejache and Yucatec refugees. The Spanish built a road through the Kejache
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By the mid-17th century the Kejache were important intermediaries between the Itza and Yucatán. The Putun Acalan subgroup of the Kejache had previously traded directly with the Itza but had been relocated by the Spanish. The remaining Kejache, decimated by disease and subject to the intense
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believed to have lacked a centralised political structure, although their capital was said to be Mazatlan (as referred to in Nahuatl by Aztec merchants). Ten Kejache towns are mentioned in Spanish colonial documents, including Tiac and Yaxuncabil, mentioned by
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territory from Campeche on the west coast of the Yucatán Peninsula and the Spanish established missions at the Kejache towns of Ichbalche and Tzuktok. By the last decade of the 17th century, the Spanish also had a priest at Chuntuki, also on the new road (or
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interpreted the "land of the Mazatecas" as the "town or lands of deer". The Kejache shared many surnames with the neighbouring Itzas and, despite the later hostility between the two peoples, it is likely that they had a common origin.
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and the independent Maya of central Petén, although the presence of Spanish missionaries among them provoked hostility from the Itza, and simultaneously exposed them to the danger of epidemic diseases contracted from the Europeans.
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to the west. The northern part of the Kejache territory received a steady stream of Maya refugees fleeing the Spanish province of Yucatán. By the 17th century the Kejache were acting as middlemen between
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By 1600, the Kejache population is estimated to have been around 7000, distributed between 10–20 settlements. By this time, the Kejache were under pressure not just from the Itzá, but also from the
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Rice, Prudence M.; Don S. Rice; Timothy W. Pugh; Rómulo Sánchez Polo (2009). "Defensive architecture and the context of warfare at Zacpetén". In Prudence M. Rice; Don S. Rice (eds.).
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Thompson, Sir Eric (1977). "A Proposal for Constituting a Maya Subgroup, Cultural and Linguistic, in the Petén and Adjacent Regions". In Grant D. Jones (ed.).
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crossed the north of Kejache territory in search of an adequate base of operations for conquest. A portion of the northern Kejache territory was given in
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in a region that takes in parts of both Guatemala and Mexico. Linguistic evidence indicates that the Kejache shared a common origin with the neighbouring
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Rice, Prudence M.; Don S. Rice (2009). "Introduction to the Kowoj and their Petén Neighbors". In Prudence M. Rice; Don S. Rice (eds.).
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in 1525; they were later in prolonged contact with the Spanish as the latter opened a route southwards towards Lake Petén Itzá.
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Jones, Grant D. (2000). "The Lowland Maya, from the Conquest to the Present". In Richard E.W. Adams; Murdo J. Macleod (eds.).
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Map of the northern lowlands of Guatemala at the time of Spanish contact, showing the location of the Kejache province
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in northern Guatemala at the time of Spanish contact in the 17th century. The Kejache territory was located in the
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attentions of Spanish missionaries, were no longer able to supply the Itza directly and became middlemen instead.
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Hofling, Charles Andrew (2009). "The Linguistic Context of the Kowoj". In Prudence M. Rice; Don S. Rice (eds.).
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After the fall of the Itza to the Spanish invaders in 1697, the surviving Kejache fled with Itza and
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Although the Kejache seem to have had a common origin with the Itza, possibly as far back as the
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The Kejache had a number of well-fortified towns built along the principal trade route from
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Rice, Prudence M. (2009). "Who were the Kowoj?". In Prudence M. Rice; Don S. Rice (eds.).
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The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Vol. II: Mesoamerica, part 2
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to the north. The Kejache were bordered immediately to the north by the territory of the
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Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés passed through Kejache territory in 1525 en route to
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The Kowoj: identity, migration, and geopolitics in late postclassic Petén, Guatemala
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was the name by which they identified themselves to others. The Kejache spoke the
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to their southeast and the Kejache may have occupied the general region since the
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with the Acalan Maya to their northwest, exchanging cotton clothing for salt.
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La conquista inconclusa de Yucatán: los mayas de las montañas, 1560–1680
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The Kejache occupied a region that is now crossed by the border between
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in Guatemala. The Kejache held a province that lay between the
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Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Maya Political Geography
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Forest Society: A Social History of Petén, Guatemala
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Maya people
Petén Basin
Itzas
Classic period
conquistador
Hernán Cortés
Guatemala
Mexican state
Campeche
Uaxactun
Itza
Nojpetén
Spanish conquest
Spanish-held Yucatán
Acalan
Chontal Maya people
maize
black beans
squash
turkeys
traded
Yucatec Maya language
Nahuatl
Aztecs
conquistador
Bernal Díaz del Castillo
a series
Maya civilization
Drawing of a Mayan stone carving with elaborate decoration.

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