Kamilla - Rigoberta Menchu
http://www.indians.org/welker/menchu.htm: Go to the Web site. Click on “Human Rights in an Interdependent World.” Then answer the following questions:
1. How does she define community? How important is the community?
2. What moral and social debts do we owe to each other?
3. How important is the creditability of our institutions? What does it mean?
http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/1992a.html: Go to the Web site. Click on “Biography.” Then answer these questions:
1. What happened to her father, mother, and brother? What was the CUC?
2. What organizations did Rigoberta join? Why?
3. Rigoberta taught herself many languages. She fled to Mexico. What work has she done there for her Mayan people?
http://www.global-vision.org/interview/menchu.html: Go to the Web site. Then answer these questions:
1. Who were the Mayan people? What happened to them when Spain came?
2. Why does she believe education is so important?
3. How does the vision of Mother Earth differ between the Mayan people and more developed countries? What problems does this difference cause?
http://www.worldtrek.org/odyssey/latinamerica/rigoberta/: Go to the Web site. Click on “Rigoberta’s Story.” Then answer these questions:
1. How did the rich landowners treat the Mayan people? What did they want?
2. What did the people do to protect themselves? What resistance did they offer?
3. What changes have happened since she received the Nobel Peace Prize?
http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/1992a.html: Go back to this Web site. Click on “Press release” and then on “Nobel Lecture.” Then answer these questions:
1. Does Ms. Menchu believe in democracy?
2. How does she think European and indigenous people can live together?
3. What is the International Year of the World's Indigenous People? What does it hope to accomplish?
1. How does she define community? How important is the community?
2. What moral and social debts do we owe to each other?
3. How important is the creditability of our institutions? What does it mean?
http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/1992a.html: Go to the Web site. Click on “Biography.” Then answer these questions:
1. What happened to her father, mother, and brother? What was the CUC?
2. What organizations did Rigoberta join? Why?
3. Rigoberta taught herself many languages. She fled to Mexico. What work has she done there for her Mayan people?
http://www.global-vision.org/interview/menchu.html: Go to the Web site. Then answer these questions:
1. Who were the Mayan people? What happened to them when Spain came?
2. Why does she believe education is so important?
3. How does the vision of Mother Earth differ between the Mayan people and more developed countries? What problems does this difference cause?
http://www.worldtrek.org/odyssey/latinamerica/rigoberta/: Go to the Web site. Click on “Rigoberta’s Story.” Then answer these questions:
1. How did the rich landowners treat the Mayan people? What did they want?
2. What did the people do to protect themselves? What resistance did they offer?
3. What changes have happened since she received the Nobel Peace Prize?
http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/1992a.html: Go back to this Web site. Click on “Press release” and then on “Nobel Lecture.” Then answer these questions:
1. Does Ms. Menchu believe in democracy?
2. How does she think European and indigenous people can live together?
3. What is the International Year of the World's Indigenous People? What does it hope to accomplish?
posted by Marvine Stamatakis at 9:43 AM
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Rigoberta Manchu joined Committee of the Peasant Union. Rigoberta became increasingly active in the CUC, and taught herself Spanish as well as other Mayan languages. Later Rigoberta began to struggle for Indian peasant people’s rights in Guatemala.
Rigoberta Manchu was born on January 9, 1959 to a poor Indian peasant family and raised in the Quiche branch of the Mayan culture. Her father was killed when security forces in the capital stormed the Spanish Embassy where he and some other peasants were staying. Government abducted Rigoberta’s mother, raped her repeatedly, cut he ears, tortured and mutilated her. Her brother was kidnapped, tortured and burned alive when he was 16 years old.
I
1) She defined community as balance. People could not find right language to speak understand each other. And the worse thing that people cannot trust. Community is a thought that has given strength and hope. The community it where people can dream about the good future and share with needs that we have.
2) Of course there is no perfect person in this world. But if we will have just some of the good qualities the world will be different. At first we must respect and value what surrounded us. We should not revenge. We must understand and think about every our wrong action. If we will take care of somebody who needs it, if we will do 80% of rights things, the world can be different.
II
1) Her father was killed when the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala City. Government abducted Rigoberta’s mother, raped her repeatedly, cut he ears, tortured and mutilated her. Her brother was kidnapped, tortured and burned alive when he was 16 years old.
2) After the death of his mother, father, and brother, Rigoberta Manchu joined Committee of the Peasant Union. Rigoberta became increasingly active in the CUC, and taught herself Spanish as well as other Mayan languages than her native Quiche. In 1980, she figured prominently in a strike the CUC organized for better conditions for farm workers on the Pacific coast.
3) 3) Rigoberta began to struggle for Indian peasant people’s rights in Guatemala. Rigoberta Manchu has become a leading advocate of Indian rights and ethno-cultural reconciliation, not only in Guatemala but in the Western Hemisphere generally, and her work has earned her several international awards.
1) Maya were the most advanced urban civilization in the pre-Columbian Americas. They invented the concept of "zero" centuries before it was independently formulated in India, and measured the solar year with an error of only 17.28 seconds.
Spain came in 1527 but Maya people struggled with so fierce that the capital Itza at Nojpeten falls last. When the Spanish came they brought chicken pox and measles with them, a lot of Maya people died from these illnesses. Many historians believed that if not those illnesses Spanish would ended in total defeat.
One of the greatest crimes against the Maya was the destruction of their thousands of books. So complete was the friars' success that only four books in Maya script survived.
2) Rigoberta Manchu thinks that if combine the traditional botanical knowledge of peasants and modern technology and science the values of earth and life can survive and we be protected from damage. Rigoberta said that indigenous people have nothing against technology and science when they are shown to be intended. But they are against of opposition to historical memory, life, benefits of science and the benefits of nature, everything that they respect and value.
3) The vision of Mother Earth is very different between Maya people and people from develop countries. The most important thing is that indigenous people still have a balance, a balance between human life and the earth itself. For Maya people, the Earth is the source of knowledge, of historical memory, of life! But the rest of the world does not share this vision, and so they keep destroying the Earth.
IV
1) How Rigoberta told, the Mayan people have worked for the rich landowners. This time was a very hard time for them. Most of the masters were different culture, so they never spoke with indigenous people. The Mayan people were paid very little and they worked among the chemicals being sprayed on the plants.
2) Rigoberta’s people have used some tools to protect themselves. They had special plans to avoid the soldiers. They had people posted outside the village to warn when the soldiers would come, they had secret exits from their huts and evacuation routes for the whole village. Once when the soldiers visited, they distracted the last soldier to leave by having a pretty, young woman from the community flirt with him. When the other soldiers were removed, the villagers jumped on the solider and disarmed him.
3) In the months prior to being given the Prize, Rigoberta's life began to change in that the media began to follow her everywhere, and massive numbers of people increasingly met her wherever she went. Everyone knew she was a top contender for the Prize, and the attention and preparations were overwhelming.
V
1) Rigoberta believes in democracy. She believes if Guatemala will have democracy so the Guatemala people can find peace.
It will help to establish political and legal grounds that will give irreversible impulses and to stop internal armed conflict.
2) Rigoberta thinks if the indigenous civilization and the European civilizations can live together they can contribute their science and knowledge to human development. If it happens so they can make exchanges in a peaceful and harmonious manner, without destruction, exploitation, discrimination and poverty, they could, no doubt, have achieved greater and more valuable conquests of Humanity.
3) In 1993 the United nations l proclaimed the International Year of the World's Indigenous People, which make 1993 a year of specific actions to truly place the indigenous peoples within their national contexts and to make them part of mutual international agreements.
The result of the International Year of the World’s Indigenous people is the participation of numerous Indian brothers, nongovernmental organizations and the successful efforts of the experts in the Working group, in addition to the comprehensiveness shown by many countries in the United Nations
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