Yaqui People

Yaqui People

The Yaqui or Yoeme are Indigenous people whose ancestors originated in the valley of the Río Yaqui in the northern Mexican state of Sonora. Many Yaqui still live in their ancestral homeland. The Pascua Yaqui Tribe is based in Tucson, Arizona. Yaqui people live elsewhere in what is now the southwestern United States.

Read more about Yaqui People:  Language, Lifestyle, Yaqui Cosmology and Religion, Yaqui in The United States, Notable Yaqui

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