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Audience at "Club Red Radio"

Yah Gaal Biaa/The Soap Tree
(2000, 22 min.) MEXICO
Director: María Santiago Ruiz (Zapotec) for the Centro de Investigación, Experimentación y Desarrollo Indígena/Center for Indigenous Research, Experimentation and Development
In Zapotec with English subtitles.

A group of Zapotec women from San Pedro Quiatoni in Oaxaca reinstate the use of "soap tree" bark (yah gaal biaa) to wash their clothes, reducing the use of commercial detergents that, besides being expensive, pollute the environment.

Image credit: Audience at Club Red Radio, 2000 Native American Film and Video Festival - photograph by Amalia Córdova, NMAI

 

Mapping Mexican Media: Indigenous and Community Video and Radio

Native Views, DC

Video México Indígena/Video Native Mexico

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