“…While my original title for this project was “Exploring and Expanding Bilingual Students’ Linguistic Repertoires in an Innovative Dual Language Program,” some of these Latinx children of immigrants very quickly informed me that they were actually multilingual. For example, two of them, Alba and Samantha, spoke an Indigenous Mexican language called Zapotec (Zapoteco), which is spoken widely by the Zapotec people in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, the neighboring state of Veracruz, and in various other parts of Mexico, as well as in diasporic communities in the United States (Martínez & Mesinas, 2019; Mesinas, 2021). Both Alba and Samantha are of Zapotec ancestry, and they were exposed to the Zapotec language in their homes from early childhood on.…”