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

Mayan Calendar 2012