Immigrants

A New Indigenous Community in Taft

13 Mixtec Families in Taft

A community of a few hundred migrant indigenous Mixtec farm workers from Oaxaca live in Taft, which was an oil boom town years ago at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley. Almost everyone icomes from the town of San Pablo Tijaltepec. Pictured: Luisa Bautista dresses up her two daughters, Julia Jasmin Lopez and Luz Esbeidy Lopez, in the unique embroidery style of their hometown.