YAQUI IN MEXICO

YAQUI ORIGINALLY LIVED IN RIO YAQUI IN SONORA, MEXICO. SOME LIVE IN ARIZONA. THEY CALL THEMSELVES YOREME OR A PEOPLE. THEY SPEAK A UTO AZTECAN FAMILY. MANY CONVERTED TO CATHOLICISM IN COLONIAL MEXICO.

THEY GREW BEANS, CORN, AND SQUASH. THE YAQUI WHO LIVED IN THE RIO YAQUI FISHED AND MADE COTTON PRODUCTS. THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SKILLED IN WARFARE.

THEY CONCEIVED THE WORLD AS 5 SEPARATE WORLDS: THE DESERT, THE MYSTICAL WORLD, FLOWER WORLD, DREAM WORLD, AND NIGHT WORLD. THE DEER SONG AND DANCE IS PERFORMED BY A PASCOLA. THEY PERFORM MANY TIMES A YEAR. THEIR DEER SONGIS MORE CENTRAL TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BELIEFS. FOWERS ARE IMPORTANT IN THE YAQUI CULTURE.

THE YAQUI NEVER WERE CONQUERED BY THE SPANISH AS THEY WERE GOOD WARRIORS. THEY WERE CONVERTED TO CHRISTIANS BY MISSIONS IN THE 19TH CENTURY TO SETTLE INTO EIGHT TOWNS. BY 1730 THE SPANISH ALTERED THEIR RELATIONSHIP AND ORDERED ALL MISSIONARIES TO LEAVE SONORA. THE YAQUI REBELLED. IN 1833 THE SPANISH KILLED A YAQUI LEADER. THEIR NATION SUFFERED A SUCCESSATION OF BRUTALITIES. IN 1820 THEY FORMED A SEPARATE ALLIANCE. BY 1868 THE MEXICANS MASSACRED THEM. THE MEXICANS ORDERED SOME TO GO TO EUROPE AND THE U.S., AND THEY TRANSFERRED 1000'S TO YUCATAN! SOME WORKED AS SLAVES ON PLANTATIONS IN MEXICO.

IN 1918 THE CALVERY WAS INVOLVED IN A FIRE FIGHT WITH THE YAQUI JUST WEST OF NOGALES. BY 1964 THE GOVERNMENT GAVE THEM 202 ACRES NEARTUCSON, AZ. THEY FORMERLY THEY WERE FORMALLY RECOGNIZED IN 1978. TUBAC, ARIZONA HAD TAQUI FOLKS. ABOUT 40% OF THE TOWN OF GUADELUPE IS YAQUI. THERE ARE SOME IN TEXAS AND CALIFORNIA AS WELL TOTALING 11,000 FOLKS.

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