The district released the first six of its 25 Mixtec language books. At least 470 students reported speaking Mixtec, an indigenous language from southern Mexico. Oxnard's Mixtec community is the world ...

•The language is spoken by indigenous people of southern Mexico. •Some native Mixtec speakers do not speak Spanish or English, creating difficulty in medical, legal and other settings. •In San Diego ...

In Dark Winds season 3, episode 1, Bernadette Manuelito questions a migrant mother and her daughter, and viewers may have wondered what language the mother is speaking. As a new Border Patrol agent in ...

Stories including development in Santa Maria, efforts to manage homelessness, a new Department of Motor Vehicles office, and ...

In “Voices from the Mixtec Highlands,” documentary photographer and photojournalist Rodrigo Jardón documents an indigenous region of Oaxaca where his Mixtec grandmother, Adelaida, was born and raised.

Parents of indigenous backgrounds say their kids are facing bullying and a language barrier in Santa Maria. On Thursday, the Santa Maria Bonita School District held an event exclusively for those ...

Growing up in Oaxaca, a city located about 300 miles south of Mexico City, Arcenio and Noe Lopez’s parents tried to steer them away from using the indigenous Mixtec language. They wanted to spare them ...

The Mixtec of Mexico have long known how to predict changes in the weather from the behaviour of birds and plants. When they hear the first grave and sad notes of the chicucu bird, for example, they ...

MADERA — The door opens, just a crack. Regina Lopez peers through. Three-year-old Felix clings to her legs, and her five other children peek through the gaps. She says nothing. She's not used to ...

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OXNARD, Calif. – Rodrigo Perea, an indigenous Mexican teenager, vividly recalls crossing the border as a boy – the bogus papers with a girl’s name, the dress he wore to hide his gender, the sleeping ...

COVID-19 has been deadly for my Mixtec Indigenous community along California’s Central Coast. Early in the pandemic, several of us thought that the virus was just a government conspiracy and that we ...