The rival kingdoms of Q'umarkaj and Iximché in the Guatemalan highlands.
Conquered by Alvarado 1524-27; the Kaqchikel revolt fought on until 1530.
Covers Alvarado's conquest of the K'iche' and Kaqchikel kingdoms and the native allies who fought in it.
Broad reframing of the highland Guatemalan conquest (broad context).
Primary source: the Popol Vuh is the K'iche' Maya creation and dynastic epic, the foundational text of the K'iche' kingdom. Christenson's translation (University of Oklahoma Press) is the scholarly standard.
Definitive reference on Maya dynasties and political history; covers the Postclassic Yucatec polities including the Kuchkabal successor states. Published by Thames & Hudson.
The Nobel laureate's mythic masterpiece steeped in the highland Maya cosmology of Guatemala, in a current Penguin Classics edition.