The Bautistas once struggled to find the space to show their handwoven rugs. Now the opportunities feel as expansive as their art.

It’s not the kind of Los Angeles County map people expect to see. Instead of geographic markers, it shows languages. The Pico-Union and Westlake areas light up with red and green dots for households ...

An archaeologist has revealed a sprawling, lost 15th-century city in southern Mexico at a site that was long thought to have been merely a garrison for soldiers. Guiengola, which was built by the ...

My jam-packed itinerary was like our own season of “The Amazing Race,” until my husband suddenly got dengue fever ...

The words come out in abrupt breaths, as if Felipe Lopez were whispering to the chalkboard. “Rseidy. Rseidy,” he asks his students to repeat. “Learns.” “And Dizh. Dizh, say it with me, is ‘language.’ ...

A newly excavated Zapotec burial has yielded a fresh interpretation of the ancient, grisly Mesoamerican custom of removing thighbones from the dead. Across pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica, femurs were ...

This story first appeared on Felicia Lee’s Open Salon blog. Tortillas are sacred in the Zapotec village of San Lucas Quiaviní, Oaxaca. Devotees worship them by ripping them into little pieces and ...

The central bank has begun withdrawing the blue 20-peso banknote bearing the image of President Benito Juárez.

Vol. 39, No. 3, ARTS, CULTURE, AND POLITICS: Part 2: REPRESENTATIONS OF RESISTANCE IN LATIN AMERICAN ART (May 2012), pp. 10-26 (17 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Inc. A Zapotec community from ...

The latest installment in the Worlds of Difference series documenting the impact of global change on local cultures comes from Yaganiza, an indigenous pueblo in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca.

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. After the killing last week of an Indigenous ...