Passing-On Native Culture on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Now let’s go south of the border, to Baja California, and more precisely, to the indigenous town of San José de la Zorra, home to more than 200 Kumiai people, whose territory was cut in two when the U.S. took what is now California from Mexico. More than a century and a half after having been separated by the border, the Kumiai people are still struggling to get out of poverty and stop more land from being stolen. At the same time, they are deep in another struggle: to stop the pillage of their culture and language, which is in danger of extinction. Our correspondent Rubén Tapia visited this community in resistance.
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