20 Mixtec Families in Taft



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		20 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 all the migrants come from the town of San Pablo Tijaltepec. PIctured: Prisciliano Silva, eating after coming home from work.

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