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Yaqui people

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Yaqui people

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Also known as Yoeme

The 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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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yaqui people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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