August 9th is the Day of World’s Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous peoples are the first people who lived in any place.
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These children live in Guatamala. The country is south of Mexico. About 6 million indigenous people live there. Many of the people there are poor. They don’t have good doctors. Other people are trying to help them.
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