mench?, rigoberta

Biography of Rigoberta Menchu, a young Mayan Indian woman whose efforts to bring peace to Guatemala won her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992.

The story of Rigoberta Mench? and her struggle to keep wealthy landowners and Guatemalan soldiers from taking away the land from her village and other Indian communities.

A profile of Nobel Peace Prize-winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum, discussing her life in a small Guatemalan village, the deaths of her mother, father, and brother at the hands of the military, and her efforts to protect the human rights of the country's indigenous people.

A biographical account of the Quich? Indian woman from Guatemala who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 in recognition of her work for social justice.

Recounts the life of Rigoberta Mench?, a young Guatemalan peasant woman who turned to catechist work as an expression of political revolt and religious commitment after her brother and parents were murdered by the Guatemalan military; and sheds light on everyday life in Latin America's Indian communities.

Presents a collection of illustrated stories that describe the world of the Mayan people of Guatemala before the time of the Conquest.

A biography of Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, tracing her childhood and youth as a coffee picker and maid in Guatemala, and discussing her efforts to secure rights and better living conditions for the Quiche-Mayan people.