E71: Indigenous Farmworkers – “Do your work no matter what other people say”

_{Photos courtesy of Addie Lucero/Rio Grande Farm Park}

Honorable mention: Best podcast feature story in the 2021 National Native Media Awards in the professional II division.

Do you know who picked the cabbage and celery you find at the grocery store? It might’ve been an Indigenous immigrant farmworker. In this episode, I visit with a couple of Indigenous immigrant farmworkers at Rio Grande Farm Park in Alamosa, Colorado to learn about their journey here and why they left Guatemala. I also speak with Dr. Giovanni Batz, social anthropologist focusing on Maya migration, displacement and diaspora, Guatemalan history, Indigenous movements and human rights, to learn more about why so many people migrate here; and why so many Indigenous people are displaced from their lands in Latin America.