Ingrid E. Sub Cuc

This research project elevates the stories and embodied experiences of Kaqchikel Maya people around health and wellbeing. The scholarship linking language and health has predominantly focused on highlighting how language revitalization improves one’s sense of belonging, cultural identity and mental health. Although important, “Our Language is Our Health” expands beyond this bounded conceptualization of the relationship between Indigenous languages and health. By braiding Indigenous methodologies such as storytelling and oral history with the academic framework of community-based participatory research, this project conducts public health research in the Kaqchikel Maya language to render Indigenous-led solutions to Indigenous public health problems.