THERMAL, CALIF. — Here in the sprawling, forlorn trailer park called Duroville, hope is as fleeting as the wind and fragile as a butterfly. It can arise suddenly, only to be crushed beneath the daily ...

Guided by their ancestral lunar calendar, members of Mexico’s Purepecha Indigenous group celebrated their own New Year’s Eve — a little differently than the West’s traditional New Year. The Purepechas ...

Activists from Mexico’s Purepecha people used axes and sledgehammers Monday to knock down statues of their ancestors being forced to haul and work stones by a colonial-era Spanish priest. Subscribe to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MEXICO CITY (AP) — Activists from Mexico’s Purepecha people used axes and sledgehammers Monday to knock down statues of their ...

Colorado researchers have discovered and partially mapped a major urban center once occupied by the Purépecha of Mexico, a little-known people who fought the Aztecs to a standstill and who controlled ...

The Indigenous Purépecha community that worshipped at the St James the Apostle church in Nurio, in the Mexican state of Michoacán—which was destroyed by fire last week—should be in charge of deciding ...

MEXICO CITYMEXICO CITY — Activists from Mexico’s Purepecha people used axes and sledgehammers Monday to knock down statues of their ancestors being forced to haul and work stones by a colonial-era ...