United by Nature

Our mission is to facilitate a world united by nature and culture rather than divided by frontiers. The Mayan Library stands as living evidence that when culture and art are supported, territories respected, and knowledge activated, societies can regenerate their relationship with the Earth.

Thank you for helping this dream grow.
We are building the first human library united by nature.

Librarian Joséf Sánchez Coach

Today, humanity faces a new technological revolution driven by what we call artificial and intelligent systems. Yet these tools, however powerful, remain fundamentally different from the lived, relational, and ethical intelligence that emerges from human experience, territory, and memory. Intelligence is not merely computational; it is ecological, cultural, and intergenerational. Within this context, the Worldwide Library Initiative and its first active node, the Mayan Library, emerge as a response to the growing separation between information and wisdom. Conceived by Librarian Joséf Sánchez, this initiative is founded on the understanding that knowledge must remain alive, embodied, and rooted in place to truly serve life.

The Mayan Library is a living library embedded within the Mayan World, where elders, communities, researchers, artists, and youth participate in the continuous transmission of knowledge. It functions simultaneously as a physical territory and a digital ecosystem, designed to preserve oral histories, ecological science, languages, rituals, and contemporary research while allowing them to evolve through use. Here, knowledge is not archived as a static artifact, but activated through events, gatherings, and ceremonies.

As the first proof of concept of the Worldwide Library for Native Science Culture and Arts, the Mayan Library demonstrates how libraries can operate as infrastructures of continuity. Rooted in decades of relationship-building, ceremonial practice, and collaborative work across Mexico and Guatemala, the Mayan Biocultural Corridor has become a convergence point for Indigenous nations from across the Americas and beyond.

The Mayan Library operates within the framework of Native International, a global alliance dedicated to protecting culture, safeguarding living knowledge systems, and restoring the social, educational, cultural, and artistic foundations of society. Native International recognizes elders as professional wisdom-keepers whose knowledge sustains communities and guides future generations. Through financial, technical, and infrastructural support, elders are enabled to teach, document, and transmit their knowledge without extraction or urgency imposed by survival pressures.

The Mayan Library also serves as a gateway to the broader Native International Regional Project, where each region worldwide will host its own official library and center. Together, these nodes form the Worldwide Library: a decentralized, ethical network designed to ensure Indigenous data sovereignty, long-term preservation, and equitable access. By combining library science, regional thinking, and contemporary technologies, the initiative establishes a global standard for protecting living knowledge without removing it from its cultural and ecological context.