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T: in tatiana C; im cameron T:C:; and we are doing rigoberta menchu T; rigoberta menchu was born in chimel, which is a vilklage im the quihe province of Guatemala in the year 1959 on january 9th. both of rigoberta menchu's parents were hard worker in the fields. but everybody was sad when both of rigobertas brother died on plantation. one of her brothers died by being posined by insecticides. and her other bother died of result of poor nutrtion. because of this rigoberta had to work in the field in the planitations when she was only eight years old. at the age of eightteen rigoberta experience her first close contact with spanish culture.when she was working in guatemala she experience the feeling of discrimination agenst indians practiced by latinos. rigoberta menchus employers made her sleep on the floor while thier the dog was treated better than her. C;during the time that rigoberta was growing up, there was a lot of political violence in guatemala. once rigoberta menchu had enogh of all this violence, she decicded to beome politicaly involvedand stand up for her people. menchu uffered many more lossesof her family members. a third brother was tortured and killed by the guatemala goverment. the folllowing year she lost her father, vinciente menchu, who was killed by protest in a protest along tirty-eight other protester. next her mother was kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the guatemalan army. in the year 1981 guatemala became so dangerous rigoberta wrote a book called //i, rigoberta menchu :an indian woman.// rigoberta also won the nobel peace prize. T;Rigoberta Menchu had many people who suffered because of the government and many of her people that supported her died. The army killed her brother and father, some say she watched them burn her brother alive. Rigoberta Menchu's father was the leader of a small group that disbanded after he died. When Rigoberta's people got captured they sometimes don't kill them right away sometimes they torture them first and some of her people died from just being tortured to death. Clearly Menchu's main opponent was the Guatemalan government which had imposed oppressive living conditions on indigenous people and responded to any protests with violence and arrest. The government opposed better conditionos for indigenous people because they didnt want to share thier right with lower class people. you caan can basicly call them selfish C;Rigoberta Menchu's legacy was she stood up to the government and stood up for what she believed in and she won the nobel peace prize. She rose to fame in 1982 when she was the subject of a written autobiography named //I, Rigoberta Menchu, // which was written in France while Menchu was there because Guatemala was too dangerous for critics of the government. The book resulted in Menchu becoming internationally known. Menchu has kept a very high profile since then, continueing to work for native rights around the globe. Her main priority contniues to be Guatemala, her home country. T;"this world's not going to change unless we're willing to change ourselves." -" what i tresure the most of life is being able to dream. during my most difficult moments and complex situations i have been able to dream of a more beautiful future." -"In our culture, peace is not a synonym for war; it's a quality of life. It's the strongest inspiration for happiness among people. Unfortunately weapons, arms, racism, war, oppression of human beings turn peace into a synonym with war. The cause has turned out [to be]... social inequality. That inequality affects all levels of peoples' rights and the environment." -"It's important to not get caught up to think it's all going to be better someday, tomorrow; it's important to say it's going to be better today. If I can help an elderly person today, that will help me live more fully. Consequently, you then realize that to help someone is not a dream out there but is something that is very do-able. C: that is symbolic of the life and work. Rigoberta Menchu was commisioned by Smithsonian Associcates to commemorate a 1993 event honoring the indigenous people's rights. Carlo Mejia's influence and interpretation for this offset lithograph was perfect for this event because Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu was the guest for this event. Carlo Mejia was a very skilled painter it was passed down from his grandparents to him to keep their tradition going. This is a painting Carlo Mejia painted to symbolize myths and mayan stories. 