Typically, the women are shorter. The skin is very dark. The appearance of the Triquis distinguishes them from most other indigenous groups. The group in Miguel Aleman consists of about 240 men, women and children. They occupy a neighborhood of forty small homes.
Women work and children play and sleep on the dusty soil.
Ten years ago, the founders of this homestead, left Oaxaca on foot. They tell me they left because they were treated like animals. They were killed on the streets in broad daylight. Fearing for their lives, they left their fertile lands where they grew their own fruits and vegetables and raised goats. They wandered for several years, finding work wherever they could.