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A Yaqui Life: The Personal Chronicle of a Yaqui Indian

A Yaqui Life: The Personal Chronicle of a Yaqui Indian

Kelley, Jane Holden
Holden, William Curry
Moisés, Rosalio

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General World History

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 0803281757
ISBN13: 9780803281752
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: Dec 1 1991
Pages: 261
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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 [his] recollections of his life on a Texas farm from 1952 to 1969. The introduction by Professor Kelley adds scholarly analysis to the poignant autobiographical narrative.-Booklist A powerful chronicle. . . . It deserves an important place in the annals of American Indian oral history and literature.-Bernard L. Fontana, New Mexico Historical Review A valuable document . . . about the effects of the Diáz Indian policy in Sonora on the human beings who were its object. [It] tells the story of the social limbo created by the shattering of families and corruption of personal relations under the relentless pressures of the Yaqui deportation program.-Edward H. Spicer, Arizona and the West The nightmare world of witchcraft and dream-dependence is one of the major fascinations of this strange and moving book. . . . [Its understatement] acquires a kind of fascinating power, as does the laconic stoicism of the Yaqui himself.-Southern California Quarterly 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.

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