Rigoberta Menchu: Indian Rights Activist

Stuart A Kallen

Rigoberta Menchu: Indian Rights Activist
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cengage Gale
Country
United States
Published
28 December 2006
Pages
104
ISBN
9781590189757

Rigoberta Menchu: Indian Rights Activist

Stuart A Kallen

This Nobel Peace Prize winner was born into a poor Indian peasant family, and raised in the Quiche branch of the Mayan culture. Her family paid extreme costs for being affiliated with the CUC, or Committee of the Peasant Union. Her father was murdered, her brother was beaten, tortured, and murdered, and her mother died after having been arrested, tortured, and raped by the armies set out to destroy the CUC and anyone speaking out against unfair worker practices. She is a leading advocate of Indian rights and ethno-cultural reconciliation, but death threats have forced her to return into exile. Introduce your readers to this powerful, unstoppable woman.

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