We have the largest population of Native American and Indigenous peoples of any U.S. city, but we lack data on their linguistic diversity.
When Angelenos voted in this year’s California primary, an important group was left out: speakers of Latin American Indigenous languages such as Zapotec and K’iche’, which are not among the 19 languages in which L.A. County provides voting materials. It’s a particularly concerning oversight in Los Angeles. Our city has the largest population of Native American and Indigenous peoples of any city in the United States — and their omission has serious implications for inclusion.
Consider: Although census data documents 22,024 people of Latin American descent in Los Angeles County who speak a language other than English or Spanish — surpassing the Section 203 threshold of 10,000 voters — it does not identify what those languages are. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the nonprofit organization Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo , or CIELO, collected that missing data.
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