Native America Calling: Recalling how Yaqui resistance shaped Mexican and American colonization

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Recalling how Yaqui resistance shaped Mexican and American colonization

The Yaqui people fought for centuries against Spanish missionaries, miners, slave-traders, and the iron-fisted, anti-Indigenous rule of the Mexican government in the latter part of the 19th Century.

Once the dominant culture in what is now Sonora, Yaqui populations were eventually diminished from conflict, disease, and even deportation out of their homelands. They eventually won back a significant portion of their traditional homeland in 1930.

Join Native America Calling to recognize the Yaqui people on the anniversary of a significant battle alongside Mexican revolutionaries against both Mexican and American forces.

A group of more than 30 Yaqui women and children held as prisoners by armed soldiers in Guaymas, Mexico, around 1910. Photo: University of Southern California. Libraries and California Historical Society

Guests on Native America Calling

Dr. Anabel Galindo (Yaqui descendant), assistant professor at Northern Arizona University

Robert Valencia (Pasqua Yaqui), former chairman and vice chairman of Pascua Yaqui Tribe, chairman and adjunct history faculty at Pima College