Experts work to save Mexican Indians’ rich cultural heritage

*There are 62 native populations in Mexico. Thirteen percent of the total Mexican population belongs to these ethnic groups. VL

By EFE/Fox News Latino

Experts plan to build a phono-library by traveling across Mexico to record the spoken words, music and customs of the country’s many Indian communities, the project leader told Efe.

Maya, Taraumara and Wixarika are just some of the Indian languages to be collected in “La ruta del venado” (The Deer’s Trail), an unprecedented effort led by Ricardo Ibarra, a Mexican-American journalist who in 2004 launched Radio Indigena at Radio Universidad de Guadalajara.

“This is a civil society initiative and we think it is the first of its kind,” Ibarra said. “Some agencies have documented those languages, but there is no phono-library to consult and learn about them.”

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