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Poster printed with black ink on white paper. A large circular single-line border frames a collage of images at center. The left side of the circle shows a woman carrying a child on her back, corn plants, a man in a camouflage military uniform, a helicopter, Christopher Columbus shown as a man in armor holding a flag in front of a ship, and carved sculptural forms with facial and plant motifs. The right side of the circle shows a bird with a long tail perched on a branch. ["This pen and ink drawing was created to support the Caravan for the Forgotten, a series of grassroots humanitarian missions to Guatemala that provided supplies and relief to Highland Maya communities in the mid-1980s. The drawing became a poster and t-shirt whose sales helped fund the caravan. It shows the history of colonialism with the arrival of the conquistadors and continuing with the military's scorched earth occupation of Mayan villages. A mother and child in traditional dress honors the indigenous culture, the corn plant and corn god, the ancient Maya stela and the Quetzalcoatl are featured as aspects of natural power. During the 1970s and 1980s, the Mayan people of Guatemala experienced a brutal genocide, perpetrated mainly by the Guatemalan state. 626 Mayan communities were destroyed by fire, 200,000 people assassinated or "disappeared" 1.5 million people displaced, including 150,000 refugees who fled to Mexico. This evidence comes from first-hand accounts, such as that of Rigoberta Mench√∫, a survivor of the massacres and a Nobel Prize winner in 1992 In 1996, a peace accord was finally signed between Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity, or URNG, and the government of Guatemala."]