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![Rigoberta Menchu's Speech in Mexico about](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: CV 032Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy ValeraCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Rigoberta Menchu speaks in Mexico in 1992 about her first novel, "I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala". She refers to it as an instrument of peace and justice for those who suffer inequality socially, economically, culturally and politically in the world and a portal the denounce the human rights violations that had been going on in Guatemala and the world. Among other things she talks about the contributions the Mayan Civilization, the significance of respecting the earth, the need for peace, the need for discourse between different global communities and the dire situation facing indigenous communities (especially women) in Guatemala. Her speech is followed by music.
![The Conquest and it's Impact](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Format: CompilationCollection: Native Americans
Articles include: The Conquest and its Consequences; Silver and Money Capitalism; Culture; Columbus and the Orgins of Racism in the Americas; Tribal Warfare; Scalping, Rethinking Terminology, and Maps: Taking Euroupe off Center Stage; Newsweek Meets the 500 Years of Resistance, Excerpt from Newsweek Special Issue, When Worlds Collide: How Columbus's Voyages Transformed Both East and West; Whose America?
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