The grand marshal of Carnaval is a champion of indigenous rights, and people in the Bay Area cite her as an inspiration in their own fights to preserve indigenous cultures.
The grand marshal of San Francisco Carnaval will be a champion of indigenous rights who has won a Nobel prize. And people in the Bay Area cite her as an inspiration in their own fights to preserve indigenous cultures.Ancient dance traditions passed down from the Maya and Aztec are kept alive by people like San Jose's Lidia Doniz. Doniz is a Guatemalan-American whose family was forced to flee the genocide of indigenous peoples in her home country in 1975.
She lost her own mother, father, and brothers to the violence.'She said the quiet things out loud. She spoke up about the killings of indigenous people, the violence against indigenous women in a country with political unrest. That was a dangerous thing to do, to have that courage. And not withstanding all of the trauma her own family experienced. The fact that she kept going despite her own tragedy is a really important piece, as a woman to be able to speak up,' Doniz said.
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