Less than 20 known precolonial codices from the area of modern-day Mexico exist, and researchers have recently uncovered hidden imagery beneath the pages of one. Dating to around 1560 and known as ...

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.

Alfonso Cuarón’s splendid film Roma has been universally praised as a major work of cinema, a triumph of cinematography no less than acting, and Cuarón himself won the Academy Award for Best Director.

Long before Wite-Out was invented, people still found ways to get a second chance at reusing a surface. Medieval scribes scraped the ink off sheets of animal hide to reuse the pages. Plenty of artists ...

SDSU’s Oaxaca Center for Mesoamerican Studies opened in May 2022 in Oaxaca, Mexico, which expanded into a site for research, ...

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 ...

Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Ñuu Shaavi, The Land of Rain; A ...

Catalina Navarette knows how hard it is for the Mixtec Indians to get to the south Oxnard clinic, drawn by little more than the promise of a free bowl of soup, bags of second-hand clothes and some ...

He works in mysterious ways.

One of Adams Morgan’s oldest restaurants may close after 40 years. Mixtec owner Pepe Montesinos tells us he’s unsure of the restaurant’s future. “We don’t know for sure what’s going to happen,” says ...