A Yaqui Life

by Holden, William Curry; Moises, Rosalio; Kelley, Jane H.

• ISBN13: 9780803281752
• ISBN10: 0803281757
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

The reminiscences of a Yaqui Indian born in 1896 in northwestern Mexico whose story begins during the Yaqui revolutionary period, continues through the last uprising in 1926, and ends with recollections of his life on a Texas farm from 1952 to 1969.

Author Biography

Jane Holden Kelley, a professor of archaeology at the University of Calgary, is the author of Yaqui Women: Contemporary Life Histories (1978), also a Bison Book. Her father, William Curry Holden, a trained historian and anthropologist, met the Yaqui narrator of this chronicle, Rosalio Moisés, in 1934. They remained close friends until Moisés's death in 1969.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Selected Bibliography	p. lvii
The Colorada Mine, 1896-1900	p. 1
Around the West	p. 69
A Candle in Heaven	p. 85
Loreta Leaves	p. 94
Javiela and After	p. 111
Hard Times in the Rio Yaqui	p. 129
Torim, 1934-1937	p. 150
Vicam 1938-1939	p. 168
Torim, 1939-1945	p. 178
Torim, 1946-1950	p. 198
1950-1952	p. 222
Since 1952	p. 235
Acknowledgments	p. 241
Index	p. 243
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