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Clase de Kaqchikel
tz’ik = to cook ewaj = to hide qetej = to hug tze’en = to laugh
oq’ = to cry tzaq = to fall
Rigoberta Menchu FondationMission:
The Rigoberta Menchu Foundation contributes towards recuperating and enriching inherent human values to create world peace taking as its base the ethnic, political and cultural diversity of the world. To work to create
justice and democracy, especially for indigenous peoples and natives.
The Code of Ethics for Peace: There is no peace without justice,
There is no justice without equality, There is no equality without development,
There is no development without democracy, There is no democracy without respect for the identity and dignity of all
cultures and people
Centro Educativo Pavarotti• This middle school program located along the
shores of Lake Atitlan. • Its objectives are to provide technical,
scientific and humanistic formation with cultural pertinence or culturally appropriate material.
• The program aids personal realization and encourages productive performance in youth and their communities.
Civil War: Genocide 1962-1994
• 1982: Indigenous Mayan Indians protested governmental land policies.
• Silent Holocaust: Over 200,000 killed or “disappeared” by governement : 83% were indigenous Maya.
• U.S. government supported Guatemalan government with arms, supplies, training soldiers at School of the Americas– Strategic support to fight spread of communism
Mayan Cosmology• The Interconnectedness of all
living things.
• Everything in the world is alive.• Human beings are an older
sibling not superior.• Nahuales-the spirits that
influence what happens on the material plane as well as the lives of people born on the day on which a specific nahual was Lord of the Day.
Mayans and the Environment
• Spiritual significance found in all living things– The ceiba tree
• Great respect for the forces of nature– Conservation– A part of nature– Partnership