Tribal Culture
What is the name of the two tribes?
Maya and Aymara
What city in Mexico requires mandatory Mayan instruction?
Yucatan
What is the official language of Guatemala?
Spanish
When was Rigoberta Menchu born?
January 9,1959
During the Guatemalan Genocide how many deaths were recorded?
200,000 deaths
What reeds Aymara used to make boats and baskets.
Totora reeds
What is the population of Mayan speakers?
6 million
Who are second class citizens in Guatemala?
Indigenous Guatemalans
What was the name of the organization that Rigoberta joined that her father started?
United Peasant Committee
How much money did the U.S spend on preventing drugs in Cambodia specifically?
$5 billion
What practice did the Maya use to give back to the gods?
Bloodletting
Where are the majority of Aymara speakers located?
Bolivian Andes & Southeastern Peru
How many different Mayan languages are there in Guatemala?
26
What did the Guatemalan government accuse Rigoberta and her family of doing?
Taking part in guerrilla activities
What movement did Evo Morales find?
Movement Towards Socialism
What do the roots, trunk and branches symbolize in the cebia tree?
Underworld, where humans lived, and upper world
What was Evo Morales' pledge?
To construct several new universities offering classes in indigenous languages
What are the three most common indigenous languages of Guatemala?
Who was Rigoberta fighting against for her people's rights?
The government and big landowners opposing Indians
Bolivia’s new Political Constitution of the Plurinational State recognized and protected how many country’s identities and nationalities?
36 identities, and nationalities
Why did Mayan priest communicate with caves?
Holy place where they believe deities lived.
What is the name of the professor in the Quechua Language Program at Pennsylvania University?
Professor Americo Mendoza - Mori
What year did Guatemala adopted the UN declaration of rights for indigenous people?
1996
What did Rigoberta Menchu recieve the nobel peace prize for?
Her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation
Name at least one ceremony that Coca was used for.
Offer to Pachamama (Mother Earth) for a good fortune.