The Mixteca--a remote, mountainous region in Northern Oaxaca--is the heartland of indigenous Mexico. In its scattered and isolated villages, Spanish is rarely heard, cars, electricity and indoor plumbing are recent introductions if they exist at all, and life's schedule continues to be dictated by the planting and harvesting of corn. But in recent years, migration to the United States has reached deeper into the heart of rural Mexico and, today, even into the Mixteca. Some villages have lost as much as 80 of their population to the north. Today, some are little more than ghost towns, populated by just a handful of old men, women and the left-behind children of migrants.

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