Editing New Bedford, Massachusetts (section)

===Kʼicheʼ community===
The city has a community of [[Kʼicheʼ people]] who originated from [[Guatemala]] and had traveled to the United States to avoid the [[Guatemalan Civil War]].<ref name=CapetAbreup60>{{cite journal|last1=Capetillo-Ponce|first1=Jorge|last2=Abreu-Rodriguez|first2=Gissell|url=https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=trotter_review|title=Immigration, Ethnicity, and Marginalization: The Maya K'iche of New Bedford|journal=[[The Trotter Review]]|date=January 2010|volume=19|issue=1|page=60 (page 3/23)|access-date=February 15, 2023|archive-date=October 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021213051/https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=trotter_review|url-status=live}}</ref> Starting in the end part of the 1980s, Kʼicheʼ adult men in [[Providence, Rhode Island]] moved to New Bedford, and other demographics of Kʼicheʼ came afterwards.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Capetillo-Ponce|first1=Jorge|last2=Abreu-Rodriguez|first2=Gissell|url=https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=trotter_review|title=Immigration, Ethnicity, and Marginalization: The Maya K'iche of New Bedford|journal=[[The Trotter Review]]|date=January 2010|volume=19|issue=1|page=59 (page 2/23)|access-date=February 15, 2023|archive-date=October 21, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021213051/https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=trotter_review|url-status=live}}</ref> Many, by 2010, were in low socioeconomic conditions and did not have documentation to be legally in the United States.<ref name=CapetAbreup60/> In 2019 an advocacy group for the [[Maya people]] complained to the courts that the [[New Bedford School District]] was not providing adequate Kʼicheʼ language services. The [[U.S. Department of Justice]] and the school district came to resolution so the school district could provide appropriate Kʼicheʼ language services.<ref>{{cite web|last=Andrade|first=Kevin|url=https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/education/2022/09/21/doj-new-bedford-schools-reach-settlement-agreement-on-kiche-speakers/10424143002/|title=DOJ settlement agreement: New Bedford schools must better address K'iche' speakers' needs|newspaper=[[South Coast Today]]|date=September 21, 2022|access-date=February 6, 2023|archive-date=February 15, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230215201353/https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/education/2022/09/21/doj-new-bedford-schools-reach-settlement-agreement-on-kiche-speakers/10424143002/|url-status=live}}</ref>