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	Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Quiche Mayan
		Rigoberta Menchú was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous people.
		Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a Guatemalan leader internationally known for her work in the promotion of the defense of human rights, peace and Indigenous Peoples' rights.
		Rigoberta Menchú Tum was born in 1959 in the village of Chimel, Guatemala, a community continuing the millennium-old Maya-Quiché culture.
	www.indians.org /welker/menchu.htm (1229 words)

	Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum lectures at UI Nov. 12
		Menchu was labeled a communist and several attempts on her life and her associates' lives were made by Guatemalan authorities when she began working through the Committee of Peasant Unity and speaking on behalf of her people nearly two decades ago.
		Menchu was born in abject poverty in 1959.
		Menchu, who penned her life story in "I, Rigoberta Menchu, An Indian Woman in Guatemala," published in 1983, has been a human rights activist for more than two decades and is a personal advisor to the UNESCO Director-General.
	itsnt166.iowa.uiowa.edu /uns-archives/1998/november/1106menchu.html (547 words)

	Special - Rigoberta Menchu Tum: The Truth That Challenges the Future
		The testimony of Rigoberta Menchu has the value of representing the story not just of a witness but rather the personal experience of a protagonist and the interpretation of that which her own eyes saw and wept, that which her own ears heard, and that which they were told.
		The testimony of Rigoberta Menchu has the bias and the courage of a victim who, in addition to what she personally suffered, had a right to assume as her own personal story the atrocities that her people lived through.
		That path took Rigoberta Menchu to the Nobel Peace Prize, and this contributed, in an effective way, to the opening of the road to peace in Guatemala, and the recognition of the situation and the indigenous demands expressed in the declaration of the International Year and Decade of Indigenous Peoples.
	www.fhrg.org /mench1.htm (769 words)

	Rigoberta Menchú - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rigoberta Menchú Tum (born in Chimel, January 9, 1959) is an indigenous Guatemalan, of the Quiché-Maya ethnic group.
		She is the subject of the testimonial biography I, Rigoberta Menchú (1983) and the author of the autobiographical work, Crossing Borders.
		In 1982 she was the subject of a book about her life, "Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia" (translated into English as "I, Rigoberta Menchú") that was transcribed from taped interviews and edited by Venezuelan-French author and psychologist Elizabeth Burgos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rigoberta_Menchu_Tum (957 words)

	International Women's Day - 8 March, 2006
		Rigoberta Menchu is the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.
		Rigoberta Menchú was born on 9 January 1959 to a poor Indian peasant family and raised in the Quiche branch of the Mayan culture.
		In more recent years Rigoberta Menchu has become involved in the Mexican pharmaceutical industry as President of the company Salud para Todos ("Health for All"), with the goal of offering cheap generic medicines to indigenous people in Guatemala.
	www.unep.org /women_env/w_details.asp?w_id=132 (241 words)

	The Chronicle: Colloquy: Background
		Menchu's hometown, reports that key events detailed in the autobiography could not have taken place, and that the author's description of herself and her family conflicts with historical records.
		Menchu's book offers up horrible stories of life on Guatemala's plantations, where she says that as a child she was forced to work for up to eight months a year, and where she claims to have seen her two older brothers die of malnutrition.
		Menchu because "that would violate the right of a native person to tell her story in her own way." However, he says he felt compelled to continue his work after he realized that not all Mayans sided with the guerrillas, and yet those Mayans "were often discounted" by foreigners.
	chronicle.com /colloquy/99/menchu/background.htm (2733 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: I, Rigoberta Menchu, Liar by David Horowitz
		The Menchus were a poor Mayan family living on the margins of a country from which they had been dispossessed by the Spanish conquistadors, whose descendants are known as ladinos, and who try to drive the Menchus and other Indian peasants off unclaimed land that they had cultivated.
		Rigobertas response to this exposure of her lies has been, on the one hand, "no comment" and, on the other, to add another liethe denial that she had anything to do with the book that made her famous.
		The fictional story of Rigoberta Menchu is a piece of Communist propaganda designed to incite hatred of Europeans, westerners, and the societies they have built, and to build support for Communist and terrorist organizations at war with the democracies of the West.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1186 (2087 words)

	American Indian Movement of Colorado: Rigoberta Menchu Tum in Denver
		Rigoberta Menchu Tum will be in Denver today, speaking at the University of Denver Campus and receiving a Champion of Change Award from the Escuela Tlatelolco.
		Rigoberta Menchu Tum is a Quiche Mayan who won the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize on the strength of her advocacy for indigenous rights.
		Rigoberta personifies the strength of indigenous peoples and their resiliency in withstanding State violence and we encourage people in the Denver area to come hear her speak.
	www.coloradoaim.org /blog/2004/06/rigoberta-menchu-tum-in-denver.html (164 words)

	Statement by the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation
		The testimony of Rigoberta Menchú has the value of representing the story not just of a witness but rather the personal experience of a protagonist and the interpretation of that which her own eyes saw and wept, that which her own ears heard, and that which they were told.
		The testimony of Rigoberta Menchú has the bias and the courage of a victim who, in addition to what she personally suffered, had a right to assume as her own personal story the atrocities that her people lived through.
		That path took Rigoberta Menchú to the Nobel Peace Prize, and this contributed, in an effective way, to the opening of the road to peace in Guatemala, and the recognition of the situation and the indigenous demands expressed in the declaration of the International Year and Decade of Indigenous Peoples.
	www.versobooks.com /verso_info/menchu_statement.shtml (746 words)

	1992 Interview with Rigoberta Menchu Tum
		At twenty years of age, Rigoberta Menchu had already lost her father, her mother and a brother as a result of the indiscriminate violence exercised by the armed forces of Guatemala.
		Rigoberta was seventeen years old when she decided to learn to speak Spanish.
		Rigoberta Menchu: I was born in a family where Papa struggled for 22 years for the piece of land where we were born.
	www.indians.org /welker/menchu2.htm (2836 words)

	Eastern Door Volume 9 Number 37 Story 3
		Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum, a Mayan Indian from Guatemala, will be visiting the Montreal area in November to seek support for her latest international campaign to bring to justice the perpetrators of murder and genocide in Guatemala.
		Menchu Tum won her Peace Prize in 1992 as a symbol of peace and resistance to the brutal regime in Guatemala.
		Menchu Tum wants to bring international pressure on the Guatemalan government as well to live up to the terms of the Peace Accord of 1996.
	www.easterndoor.com /archives/9-37/9-37-3.htm (696 words)

	I, Rigoberta Menchu, Liar (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Menchus were not part of the landless poor, and Rigoberta had no brother who starved to death, at least none that her own family could remember.
		The fictional life of Rigoberta Menchu is a piece of Communist propaganda designed to incite hatred of Europeans and Westerners, and the societies they have built, and to organize support for Communist and terrorist organizations at war with the democracies of the West.
		Rigoberta Menchu made a fool of the credulous defenders of Third World-ism on the Nobel Prize committee, and of her feckless academic sponsors at Stanford and other universities, all of whom were looking for such a fraud to legitimate their fantasies.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=1193 (2422 words)

	Rigoberta Menchu (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan activist for the rights of the indigenous people and a winner of Nobel Peace Prize, was born in 1959 in a small Guatemalan village of Chimel located in the northern highlands.
		Rigoberta's mother, also a leader in her community and a healer, was kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed the following year.
		Rigoberta was likewise active in her father's movement, the United Peasant Committee.
	www.distinguishedwomen.com /biographies/menchu.html (489 words)

	Syllabus : Rigoberta Menchu Tum
		Rigoberta Menchu Tum a vu le jour le 9 janvier 1959 dans le petit village de Chipel situé près de San Miguel Uspantan dans le nord-ouest du Guatemala.
		Rigoberta Menchu lutte pour que soient enfin reconnus les droits économiques, politiques et culturels des Indiens du Guatemala.
		Moi, Rigoberta Menchu, Éditions Folio, Paris, 1999, 507p.
	www.cvm.qc.ca /encephi/Syllabus/Histoire/Passecompose/RigobertaMenchu.htm (534 words)

	Rigoberta Menchú Tum - Biography
		Rigoberta Menchú was born on January 9, 1959 to a poor Indian peasant family and raised in the Quiche branch of the Mayan culture.
		In 1980, she figured prominently in a strike the CUC organized for better conditions for farm workers on the Pacific coast, and on May 1, 1981, she was active in large demonstrations in the capital.
		Stoll’s critical examination of Rigoberta’s autobiography, based on local interviews and documentary sources, shows that parts of her own and her family history are not correct, even when she speaks as an eyewitness of events described.
	www.nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/1992/tum-bio.html (1012 words)

	menchu2
		According to Stoll, Vicente Menchu is not a destitute landless peasant who must send his family to work in sugar plantations on the coast and who dies because of his struggles against lading landowning oligarchs.
		Instead, we see an image of Menchu as an entrepreneurial farmer whose main conflicts are with other Indians, in particular members of his wife's extended family, and who dies because he was protesting the disappearance of his son, Petrocinio.
		I don't blame Rigoberta Menchu for not emphasizing those in her text; that was not her purpose.
	www.zmag.org /ZMag/articles/menchu2.htm (2486 words)

	Rigoberta Menchu Tum
		Rigoberta Menchu Tum was born in 1959 in northwestern Guatemala to a Quiche-Mayan family.
		However, this put her life in danger and in 1981, she went into exile in Mexico to hide from the Guatemalan authorities that were hunting her down.
		In 1992, Rigoberta received the Nobel Peace Prize, allowing her to return to Guatemala and work to make the treatment of her people and others better.
	www.angelfire.com /anime2/100import/menchutum.html (228 words)

	Channel5Belize.COM (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rigoberta is self educated and has received seventeen honorary doctorates from universities around the world.
		Although this is her first visit to Belize, Menchu Tum feels that indigenous people share common experiences and that they must work to promote peace and education and must also strive for sustainable development.
		During her brief stay, Menchu Tum will be meeting with Prime Minister Esquivel, as well as with cultural and indigenous leaders.
	new.channel5belize.com /archive_detail_story.php?story_id=1420 (353 words)

	.: Corvallis Gazette-Times :. Archives
		Rigoberta Menchu Tum received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 for her work on the rights of the indigenous people of Guatemala.
		Tum grew up in the agrarian village of Chimel, Guatemala, where she witnessed the harsh conditions of peasants and farm workers.
		Tum said she was raised in a loving community and beautiful landscape.
	www.gazettetimes.com /articles/2006/04/22/news/community/sat04.txt (988 words)

	Profile of Rigoberta Menchú Tum
		Rigoberta Menchú Tum was born in 1959 in the culturally Maya Quiche village of Chimel.
		Menchú Tum was self educated and motivated to non violent action by the various hardships she has faced in her life.
		In 1992, Rigoberta Menchú was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, "in recognition of her work for social Justice an ethnocultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous people." Upon receipt of this well-deserved honor, she became, "the first Indigenous and the youngest person ever to receive this distinction.
	people.brandeis.edu /~dwilliam/profiles/tum.htm (595 words)

	I, Rigoberta Menchu
		Rigoberta suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military.
		Rigoberta’s gift for striking expression vividly conveys both the religious and superstitious beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas.
		Rigoberta Menchu Tum is the winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize for her work as a campaigner for human rights, especially for indigenous peoples.
	www.thepeacecompany.com /store/prod_books_irigoberta.php (217 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News
		Tum, 41, is in Hawaii for a series of speaking events and to serve as a good-will ambassador of peace for the United Nations Education, Scientific and Culture Organization.
		Tum, who is Mayan, has been working to bring international attention to the plight of Guatemala's indigenous people for nearly two decades.
		Tum said there are common themes of intolerance, displacement from ancestral lands and hope among native peoples struggling for their rights.
	www.starbulletin.com /2000/05/02/news/story6.html (525 words)

	The My Hero Project - Rigoberta Menchu Tum
		Rigoberta Menchú, as so many other indigenous people did, lost members of her family from murders orchestrated by the Ladinos government.
		In the end, though the stories depicted in I, Rigoberta Menchú is not her own true story, it is an epitome of the story of all poor Guatemalans.
		Rigoberta Menchú's statement in response to the September 11 attacks.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=r_menchu (1687 words)

	Rigoberta Menchu Tum
		Rigoberta Menchú Tum received the Nobel Peace Prize for her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples in her native Guatemala.
		Ms Menchú Tum Was raised in a poor Indian family in the highlands of Guatemala when the repressive military dictatorship of Guatemala began a large-scale repression of Indian peoples.
		Rigoberta confronted the oppression faced by her family and her peoples by actively protesting labor and human rights abuses.
	www.womenspeaceconference.org /RigobertaMenchuTum2.htm (219 words)

	Green Left - Rigoberta Menchu wins Nobel Peace Prize
		Rigoberta Menchu has been forced to live in exile in Mexico for the last 10 years by threats to her life, which originate from the hated Guatemalan armed forces.
		Rigoberta, a poor Guatemalan peasant woman, began her life working on the plantations, picking coffee, cotton and cardamom and cutting sugar for the wealthy landowners with her parents, brothers and sisters.
		Rigoberta's mother, father and brother were all killed in separate attacks by the army.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1992/77/2217 (525 words)

	Nobel Peace Laureates Conference \| 1998
		Rigoberta Menchú Tum was born on January 9, 1959, in the Guatemalan village of Chimal.
		Fearing for her life, Menchú Tum fled to Mexic o, where she came under the protection of the Catholic Guatemalan Church-in-Exile and lived for the next 12 years.
		Additionally, Menchú Tum is a member of the PeaceJam Foundation advisory council and a counselor to Federico Mayor Zaragoza, general director of UNESCO.
	www.virginia.edu /nobel/laureates/bios/tum_bio.html (970 words)

	Identify Indigenous Peoples - UNCyberschoolbus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rigoberta Menchú Tum has devoted her life to the struggle for the rights and well-being of indigenous peoples.
		Rigoberta's family was actively involved in this struggle and they were leaders in their community.
		Rigoberta was no longer safe in Guatemala, and she managed to escape to Mexico.
	cyberschoolbus.un.org /indigenous/identify_focus.asp (321 words)

	I, Rigoberta Menchu
		Rigoberta suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military.
		Rigoberta’s gift for striking expression vividly conveys both the religious and superstitious beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas.
		Rigoberta Menchu Tum is the winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize for her work as a campaigner for human rights, especially for indigenous peoples.
	thepeacecompany.com /store/prod_books_irigoberta.php (217 words)

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