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Global conservation efforts are celebrated for saving Guatemala's Maya Forest. This book reveals that the process of protecting lands has been one of racialized dispossession for the Indigenous peoples who live there. Through careful ethnography and archival research, Megan Ybarra shows how conservation efforts have turned Q'eqchi' Mayas into immigrants on their own land, and how this is part of a larger national effort to make Indigenous peoples into neoliberal citizens. Even as Q'eqchi's participate in conservation, Green Wars amplifies their call for material decolonization by recognizing the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the land itself.

Sociology of environment --- National wealth --- Guatemala --- Natural resources --- Decolonization --- Kekchi Indians --- Cacchi Indians --- Cakchi Indians --- Qʾeqchiʾ Indians --- Quekchi Indians --- Indians of Central America --- Mayas --- Sovereignty --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Colonization --- Postcolonialism --- National resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Management. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Land tenure --- Economic aspects --- Maya Forest --- Qʼeqchiʼ (Community : North) --- Selva Maya --- Kekchí (Community : North) --- Qʼechqchiʼ (Community : North) --- Quekchí (Community : North) --- Conservation. --- Government relations --- History. --- academic. --- anthropology. --- archival research. --- biology. --- colonization. --- conservation. --- decolonization. --- dispossessed. --- ecological. --- ecology. --- environmentalism. --- environmentalist. --- ethnography. --- guatemala. --- immigrants. --- indigenous land. --- indigenous people. --- indigenous population. --- maya forest. --- mayan. --- migrants. --- natural world. --- nature. --- post colonial. --- protecting lands. --- public lands. --- qeqchi mayas. --- rainforest. --- scholarly.