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Rigoberta Menchu Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala Rigoberta Menchu, grew up in a life full of hatred and oppression, but these things were what made her become a stronger person, and led her to be the person that she became. Growing up in Latin America is already hard, but growing up in Latin America as an indigenous person (una “India”), is among the toughest things to go through. In Latin America, being a native american is among the worst things to be. You are not treated like a human being. Rather, you are treated as if you are less; you are treated like an animal. In the biography, I, Rigoberta Menchu An Indian Woman in Guatemala, edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debrey, we are put into life in the perspective of Rigoberta. She explains many injustices that she, her family, and her people (all indigenous tribes of Guatemala), must have to face, just to be able to live. She lives a life of oppression, which is something that she fights against. There were many sources of Ms. Rigoberta Menchu’s oppression. The main source of her oppression is, in my eyes, the ignorance and malice of the “Ladinos” (Europeans and Meztisos). Rigoberta and her family each rigoberta, menchu, people, land, family, owners, indigenous, because, oppression, make, guatemala, things, indios, became, treated, over, money, life, lands, fincas, way, until, time, something, rigoberta’s, person, out, latin, large, ladinos, hard, fact, education, educated, determined, being