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.

Lecturer Felipe Lopez has a doctorate in urban planning from UCLA, but his UCLA office is in the indigenous languages of the Americas program. This quarter, Lopez is teaching elementary Zapotec, the ...

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.’ ...

Juan Luis, who moved to Los Angeles from a tiny town in Oaxaca and primarily speaks the indigenous language Zapotec, knew he was missing information about the pandemic changing life around him. In ...

After the killing last week of an Indigenous Mexican teen by police in Salinas, advocacy groups are concerned that language barriers may have played a role in the fatal encounter. Gerardo Martinez, 19 ...