This article draws from interviews with two Mixtec migrant farmworkers whose life experiences demonstrate how communication, language, and community, across time and borders, impact the ways Indigenousmigrants choose to practice literacy and non-literacy. Using their stories, I disrupt and decenter the Western definition of literacy and instead present it as a tool for discrimination that erases the Latinx Indigenousvoices, knowledge, and ways of being by replacing it with reading and writing. Instead, I introduce non-literacy as a representation of positive and proud oral traditions that counter the many effects of discrimination. Moreover, non-literacy helps us understand how oral Indigenousmigrant communities make the choice to prioritize the orality of their culture even when surrounded by reading and writing. This approach offers a more appropriate and respectful way to understand how oral Indigenouscommunities choose to live and make sense of the world around them.