’iche’ is Guatemala’s largest Indigenous language, with over a million speakers concentrated in the country’s central highlands. Like the Mam and other Mayan peoples, the K’iche’ suffered greatly during the genocidal campaigns of the Guatemalan state in the late 20th century and continue to face deeply ingrained discrimination which is driving many north across the border. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the K’iche’ are the largest Mayan ethnic group in New York City, dispersed throughout the city but with clusters in Bensonhurst/Bath Beach/Gravesend (where there are concentrations connected to certain blocks, churches, and businesses), as well as parts of Queens and New Jersey.