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Latin Amer.cultures
Cultures of Latin America
| Questions | Answers |
|---|---|
| diversity | variety |
| Injustice | lack of fairness |
| Indigenous | describes people who are descendant of people who first lived in a region |
| Maquiladora | U.S owned factory in Mexico that is located close to the U.S mexico border |
| emigrate | move out of one county into another |
| immigrant | Person who has moved into one country from another |
| subsistence farming | Practice of growing only as much food as a group of people need to survive |
| Import | To bring products into one country from another to sell |
| Ethnic group | Group of people who share the same ancestors, cultures, language, or religion |
| carnival | annual celebration in Latin America with music, dances and parades. |
| Elvia Alvarado lives where and what does she do? | Honduras & and she helps poor campesinos make a living (honduras campesinos are like rural people in all of Central America) |
| Who does Alvarado work for | Organization of cmapesinos |
| What does Alvarado does at work | finds land for people, gets loans to buy seeds and fram machinery. |
| Does Alvarado always get paid | No |
| Does Alvarado always get to eat and drink? | No, sometimes not all day, and sometimes streams dry up and there's no water to drink. |
| Was Alvarado sad when she couldn't eat? | No, she wasn't happy if her neigbors didn't have anything to put on the table. |
| What did Alvardo once say? | My struggles is for a better life for all Hondurans |
| What language did Gov. and business speak? | Spanish |
| What happened in the 1500s and 1600s | Spainish messionaries converted many Native Americans to Christianity. |
| Are most the people Catholic? | Yes |
| What were the Roman Catholic churches fighting? | Injustice |
| Did people try to end poverty? | Yes |
| What did people do to try to end povery? | health clinics, farms and organizations. |
| People of El Salvador are mostly what? | mestizo |
| mestizo | mixed spanish and native american ancestry |
| who were the people to first live in the Carrean | Native Americans |
| Do women go to shcool as long as men? | No |
| What are women in S. America doing ? | fighting to make a living for themselves and thir children. demanding equal rights. struggling for rights to go to school, get different type jobs to have good health care and to have a voice in goverment |
| What are womens traditional skills? | sewing, weaving, preparing food |
| Woment are trying to do what? | Get bank loans to start small businesses |
| Chilean poet? | Gabriela Mistral |
| What was Gabriela Mistral awarded? | Nobel prize for Litature in 1945 |
| What did Mistral consider herself? | teacher |
| Where did Mistral teach? | rurual chile, in the 1900s |
| Did Mistal like the textbooks | no |
| Were the quality of the textbooks poor | yes |
| What id Mistral begin to write? | Poetry for children |
| Totora reeds are used by who? | Native Americans |
| What are Totora reeds? | thick hollow grass that grows on the lakshore. |
| What do Native American use on Lake Tiicaca | tortora to make boats |
| What are Torora reeds used for? | make housed, mats, hats, ropes, sails, toys, roofs, and tea. |
| Can Torora reeds be used to make medicine? | Yes |
| Did Native American share Torora reeds with Incas | No |
| Native americans used this to make floating islands | tortaora reeds |
| What were the floating islands used for? | hide from incas |
| Do Native Americans live on floating islands today? | Yes, some |
| Lake Titicaca is located | Between Peru and Bolivia, high in the Andes Mountians |
Created by:
J.A
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