Yaqui people
Sign in to saveThe Yaqui, Hiaki, or Yoeme, are an Indigenous people of Mexico and Native American tribe, who speak the Yaqui language, an Uto-Aztecan language.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- YaquiYoeme
- Ethnic group.image
- File:Yaqui musicians 2015.jpg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Yaqui Musicians at the Yaqui Dance of the Deer, II Festival of Indigenous Cultures, 2015
- Ethnic group.total
- 38,652
- Ethnic group.region1
- Mexico (Sonora, Sinaloa)
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 16,240 (2019)
- Ethnic group.region2
- United States (Arizona)
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 22,412, self-identified (2003)
- Ethnic group.languages
- Yaqui (Yoem Noki), English, Spanish
- Ethnic group.religions
- Peyotism, Christianity (Roman Catholicism)
- Ethnic group.related
- Other Uto-Aztecan-speaking peoples, especially Mayos
- Ethnonym.root
- Hiaki
- Ethnonym.person
- Hiaki / Yoeme
- Ethnonym.people
- Yaqui / Yoemem
- Ethnonym.language
- Yoem Noki
- Ethnonym.country
- Hiakim
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Article
15 sectionsContents
- Language
- Name
- History
- 1530s–1820s: Conquistadors and missionaries
- 1820s–1920s: Yaqui Wars and enslavement
- 1920s–1930s: Cárdenas and Yaqui independence
- Lifestyle
- Yaqui cosmology and religion
- Pascua Yaqui Tribe
- Unrecognized organizations in the United States
- Notable Yaqui
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
The Yaqui, Hiaki, or Yoeme, are an Indigenous people of Mexico and Native American tribe, who speak the Yaqui language, an Uto-Aztecan language.
Their primary homelands are in Río Yaqui valley in the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. Today, there are eight Yaqui Pueblos in Sonora.