FRESNO, Calif. -- For Felix Mendoza, growing up as an Indigenous person of Mexico in the United States was no easy feat. He and his family immigrated from the Mexican state of Oaxaca to California in 1990 when he was a teenager. They started working in the ...

In addition to the Guelaguetza, Vivar helps host an Indigenous Peoples Day ceremony at Rutgers University alongside the Lenape and Ramapo nations, whose ancestral lands include present-day New Jersey and surrounding states. For her, these gatherings are about more than recognition—they’re about repair.

Adan Medrano has a new cookbook which came out this summer, The Texas Mexican Plant-Based Cookbook – in which he honors the plant-based cooking history, traditions, and knowledge that make up the comida casera (home cooking) of today's Texas Mexican community.

Indigenous health workers are stepping up their battle against opioid addictions as their communities have been especially hard-hit by the opioid epidemic. Use is highest in these communities compared to all U.S. populations. And, it has been increasing dramatically in recent years.