Rigoberta Menchu

1. RigobertaMenchu By: Arnold Bistqouet

2. January 1959 • RigobertaMenchú was born on January 9, 1995. • She was born in the village of Chimel, near San Miguel in Guatemala. • Raised in a community that continues to practice their millennium-old culture • http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=active&tbo=p&tbs=tl%3A1%2Ctl_num%3A20&q=where+was+rigoberta+menchu+born&aq=2m&aqi=g2g-m2&aql=&oq=rigoberta+menchu+bo

3. This is the type of house that RigobertaMenchú might of lived in. She grew up in a pour family so they could not afford a big house.

4. Early years • In her early years she helped with the family farm work, either in the northern highlands where her family lived, or on the Pacific coast, where both adults and children went to pick coffee on the big plantations. • RigobertaMenchú soon became involved in social reform activities through the Catholic Church. • She became prominent in the women's rights movement when still only a teenager. • http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rigoberta+menchu+timeline&aq=0sx&aqi=g-sx1&aql=&oq=rigobera+menchu+ti

5. RigobertaMenchú worked in a farm like this one.

6. 1981 • Menchú's mother was kidnapped, tortured, and killed by the Guatemalan army, and two of her sisters joined the guerrillas. Life in Guatemala had become too dangerous, and Menchú fled to Mexico in 1981. • There she began an international crusade to represent the hardships of the Guatemalan Indians • She then joined the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations. • http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ma-Mo/Mench-Rigoberta.html

7. RigobertaMenchu and her sister Anita march in Guatamala City to memorialize their father's death.

8. Writing her Book • Menchú became involved with various groups in their struggle for the indigenous people out of personal conviction and sense of justice. Because of her fight against the government, RigobertaMenchú was labeled an enemy, and had to flee Guatemala for her life. During her time abroad, she met many people who were sympathetic to the indigenous people's plight. Her friends persuaded her to write a book about her life. • http://www.myhero.com/go/hero.asp?hero=r_menchu

9. Writing the book became part of her winning the nobel prize.

10. 1983 • RigobertaMenchú became well-known after her first biography, I, RigobertaMenchú was published in 1983 when she was merely 23 years old. • The book reflects the different influences on her life. • It is a mixture of Spanish learned by nuns and full of biblical associations. • http://www.worldtrek.org/odyssey/latinamerica/rigoberta/rigoberta_story.html#background

11. This is the famous book that RigobertaMenchú wrote.

12. 1992 • She won the Nobel Peace Prize at age 33. • By wining the Noble Peace Prize she became a voice of the poor and indigenous in her country. • She was rewarded the Nobel Prize in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples in Guatemala . • http://answers.encyclopedia.com/question/why-did-rigoberta-menchu-receive-nobel-prize-1992-306785.html

13. She won the Nobel Peace Prize on the behalf of her work for the Indian people in Guatemala.

14. 2004 • By the time she was 21 both her parents and brother had been tortured and killed by the army. • She has held the position of Good Will Ambassador for the Peace Accords in Guatemala since 2004. • Rigoberta is also involved in the Mexican pharmaceutical industry as President of the company SaludparaTodos ("Health for All"), which has the goal of offering generic medicines to indigenous people in Guatemala. • http://eomega.org/omega/faculty/viewProfile/9167899e5408ff518ba2afca241e7e10/

15. Rigoberta giving a speech as a Good Will Ambassador .

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