mixtec linguistics

I’m learning everything I can about the Mixtec people and their language(s), especially as it exists in the US state of California. I’ll be using this blog to post what I find.

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“What’s going to happen with ESL this summer is going to be huge,” Kennedy said. “There are 5,000 Mixteco in Alabama, and we’re just finding more and more of them all the time.”

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Conferencia: El lenguaje Mixteco por Tiburcio Pérez Castro

Presentación del alfabeto(Ndusu), normas de escritura y de lectura de la lengua Tu'un Savi(Dedavi) por el Maestro Tiburcio Pérez Castro el cual es miembro de...

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This remarkable archive contains recordings of 185 musicians from numerous ethnic groups is in 12 languages.

“Ethnographers and folklorists with the project are also documenting performance and music that is rarely seen outside of immigrant communities. The “Diablo” or Devil dances of the traditional Mixteco dance group Nuu Yuku are one such type of performance. These Oaxacan dancers from the San Joaquin Valley mostly work day jobs as farmworkers, but in their off time, they perform with ornate wooden devil masks adorned with deer antlers, cracking bull whips.”

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NDATIAKU YOO TU'UN SAVI

Sitio destinado a promover el uso del tu'un savi en las redes sociales y a crear grupos activos en las redes sobre la memoria, la vida y la cultura del Ñuu Savi

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Afropop In Mexico: Keepers of the Chilena

The first installment in our “Afropop in Mexico” video series follows the story of Eulalio Gallardo and his teenage sons, who are working to keep waning Afro-Mexican musical traditions alive in the Costa Chica region. Video produced by Nina Macintosh ... Read more »

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An interview with Elvia Vasquez, intepreter from MICOP, about dangerous application of pesticides.

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Looking to Settle Down, Immigrant Farmworkers Face Housing Crisis

The immigrant workers that pick crops like cotton and melons in the U.S. can have a tough time finding a place to live. The rural areas where they can

This interesting article doesn’t directly mention Indigenous Mexican immigrants, but they face all of the issues described here.

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El Son de los Diablos es una antigua tradición y expresión popular llena de música, danza, máscaras, colorido y mucha diversión, que tuvo mucha influencia en la música y danza del festejo que conocemos hoy. Sus inicios se remontan a las festividades realizadas durante los siglos XV y XVI, como símbolo del catolicismo en España y practicadas en Lima a fines del siglo XVI. Esta celebración se integró a la tradición popular limeña, siendo una de las expresiones del patrimonio expresivo artístico limeño, que por su riqueza, significación y tradición refleja fielmente la identidad y diversidad cultural de nuestro país.

Algo parecido en Perú.

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UNHEARD VOICES GRANT: Voices From The Mixtec Highlands

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Danza de los Diablos, danza característica de los afrodescendientes de la “Costa Chica” de Guerrero y de Oaxaca, expresión cultural de un pueblo históricamente silenciado.

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Noticias del diario mexicano La Jornada

Talvez la danza de los diablos que se hace en Juxtlahuaca tiene alguna conexión con esta?

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Migrant Heroes | 2015 Online Film Festival | PBS

Indigenous Harvard grad pioneers Spanish- and Mixtec-language radio programming in the U.S.

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The Mexican state of Oaxaca was embroiled in a conflict that lasted more than seven months and resulted in at least seventeen deaths[1]:195 and the occupation of the capital city of Oaxaca by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO). The conflict emerged in May 2006 with the police responding to a strike involving the local teachers' trade union by opening fire on non-violent protests. It has since grown into a broad-based movement pitting the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) against the state's governor, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz. Protesters demand the removal or resignation of Ortiz, whom they accuse of political corruption and acts of repression. Multiple reports, including from international human rights monitors, have accused the Mexican government of using death squads, summary executions, and even violating Geneva Conventions standards that prohibit attacking and shooting at unarmed medics attending to the wounded.[1]:197 One human rights observer has claimed over twenty-seven killed by the police violence. The dead include Brad Will, Emilio Alonso Fabian, Jose Alberto Lopez Bernal, Fidel Sanchez Garcia, and Esteban Zurita Lopez.[1]:280

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