A Yaqui Life: The Personal Chronicle of a Yaqui Indian

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“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 Diaz 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 Moises| in 1934. They remained close friends until Moises’s death in 1969.”