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    Tránsito Amaguaña: Biography

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    Tránsito Amaguaña was an Ecuadorian indigenous rights activist and one of the founders of the Ecuadorian Indian Federation. She was born into slavery in 1909 and worked without pay on a small farm as a child. Amaguaña helped organize Ecuador's first indigenous organization in 1930 and led numerous protests demanding land reform and justice for indigenous peoples. She received Ecuador's highest honor, the Premio Eugenio Espejo, in 2003 for her lifelong advocacy for indigenous rights before passing away in 2009 at the age of 99.

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    Tránsito Amaguaña was an Ecuadorian indigenous rights activist and one of the founders of the Ecuadorian Indian Federation. She was born into slavery in 1909 and worked without pay on a small farm as a child. Amaguaña helped organize Ecuador's first indigenous organization in 1930 and led numerous protests demanding land reform and justice for indigenous peoples. She received Ecuador's highest honor, the Premio Eugenio Espejo, in 2003 for her lifelong advocacy for indigenous rights before passing away in 2009 at the age of 99.

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    Tránsito Amaguaña was an Ecuadorian indigenous rights activist and one of the founders of the Ecuadorian Indian Federation. She was born into slavery in 1909 and worked without pay on a small farm as a child. Amaguaña helped organize Ecuador's first indigenous organization in 1930 and led numerous protests demanding land reform and justice for indigenous peoples. She received Ecuador's highest honor, the Premio Eugenio Espejo, in 2003 for her lifelong advocacy for indigenous rights before passing away in 2009 at the age of 99.

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    Tránsito Amaguaña

    Rosa Elena Tránsito Amaguaña Alba (September 10, 1909 – May 10, 2009) was
    Tránsito Amaguaña
    an Ecuadorian leader of the indigenous movement and one of the founders of the
    Ecuadorian Indian Federation (FEI) along with Dolores Cacuango. She was awarded
    the Premio Eugenio Espejo in 2003 by President Lucio Gutiérrez for her lifetime
    work in the indigenous movement.[1]

    Biography
    Born into a family of slaves and ‘property’ of the landowner, Tránsito Amaguaña
    helped her parents on their small piece of land. The family worked seven days a
    week for no pay and in return could cultivate food on that land to grow and eat.

    As it was common for girls to be raped by the landowners, Tránsito’s mother


    decided her daughter would be better marrying an older man. She was married at the
    age of 15 to a 25-year-old and became pregnant almost immediately. Tránsito’s
    husband was cruel and beat her repeatedly. The young Tránsito became involved in
    the Socialist Party and on discovering this her husband beat her so violently that he
    tired himself out, the next morning she discovered her baby dead in his cot. Born September 10, 1909
    Pesillo, Pichincha,
    Transito continued to attend meetings and became more and more involved in
    Ecuador
    politics and the injustices of the indigenous people of Ecuador. By the time she was
    able to free herself from her violent husband she had two more children by him.
    Died May 10, 2009
    (aged 99)
    On her own, Tránsito continued to work the land in exchange for food for herself Nationality Ecuadorian
    and her children. In 1930 she helped to set up the first indigenous or
    ganization of her
    Occupation Activist
    country and took part in 26 marches to the capital, Quito, to demand justice for her
    people. Quito was 66 kilometers from her home and Tránsito did this carrying her Awards Premio Eugenio
    two children. Espejo (2003)

    She helped organize and took part in the first worker’s union. One strike lasted three months until the military moved in and
    destroyed the workers homes and detained them. Tránsito had to live the next 15 months of her life in hiding from the authorities.
    Among her people she was greatly admired, but the authorities constantly threatened her. She later joined the Communist Party and
    traveled to Cuba and the Soviet Union to represent the Ecuadorian people. ránsito
    T was arrested on return from one of these tours and
    detained, accused of trafficking weapons and Bolshevik money to incite revolution, all she had was documentation for promoting
    land reforms. She was released after 4 months after being made to sign a declaration that she would not continue ‘agitating’ her
    people. But of course she did not stop, in true style of the revolutionary woman that she was, she continued her work, fighting for
    equality and justice for her people.

    Tránsito retired on a state pension and died of unknown causes in her home village of Pesillo [2] in 2009. Her funeral was attended by
    President Rafael Correa and vice president Lenín Moreno and various indigenous leaders.

    Notes
    1. Premio Eugenio Espejo para Tránsito Amaguaña (http://www.eluniverso.com/2003/08/25/0001/8/09FB2D64951C4F
    0B8FADEB722353DCB4.html), August 25, 2003
    2. "Ecuadorian Indian rights activist dies at 100: ECUADOR-ACTIVIST"(http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=334413&C
    ategoryId=14089). Retrieved 2018-03-22.
    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=T
    ránsito_Amaguaña&oldid=880837647"

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