Víctor Montejo (Jakaltek Maya) is professor emeritus of Native American studies at the University of California, Davis. An internationally recognized author, his major publications include Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village (1987); Voices from Exile: Violence and Survival in Modern Maya History (1999); Maya Intellectual Renaissance: Critical Essays on Identity, Representation, and Leadership (2003); Popol Vuh: Sacred Book of the Mayas (1999); El Q’anil: Man of Lightning (2002); Entre dos Mundos (Memoria) (2021); and Mayalogue: An Interactionist Theory of Indigenous Cultures (2021).