Yaqui

American  

[yah-kee] / ˈjɑ ki /

noun

• Yaquis,
  plural
• Yaqui
  plural

1. Also called Yoeme.  a member of an Indigenous people of Sonora, Mexico, now living also in other parts of northwestern Mexico and in Arizona and Texas.

2. Also called Yoem Noki.  the Uto-Aztecan language of the Yaqui.

3. a river in northwestern Mexico, flowing into the Gulf of California. 420 miles (676 kilometers) long.

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Yaqui or their language.

Yaqui British  

/ ˈjaki /

noun

1. a river in NW Mexico, rising near the border with the US and flowing south to the Gulf of California. Length: about 676 km (420 miles)

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Yaqui
  plural
• Yaquis
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Yaqui

First recorded in 1860–65; from Mexican Spanish, from earlier Hiaquis (plural), from Yaqui hiaki, hiyaki “the Yaqui River”

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Yaqui Yaquis

She immediately felt embraced by the community, even though she wasn’t brought up with her Yaqui traditions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2024

The policy will force the Pascua Yaqui "to choose between houses for our families and water certainty for our Tribe and our neighbors," then-Chairman Robert Valencia wrote to the Department of Water Resources in 2020.

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2023

Now, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe is trying to change this — for themselves and potentially dozens of other tribes in the U.S.

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2023

Lucinda Hinojos, who was born in Glendale and is of Apache and Yaqui descent, became the first Native and Chicana artist to partner with the NFL.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 9, 2023

The Mayo and Yaqui valleys were now made a separate rectorate.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

Their work could provide a template for dozens of Native American nations whose homelands, like the Pascua Yaquis, were sliced in two by modern-day U.S. borders.

From Washington Times ● May 13, 2023

The Yaquis are the legal owners of at least half the water in the river basin that bears their name and which they have defended through nearly five centuries of massacres and extermination.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2022

They said that General Amarilla was actually fighting for the Mexican army and helped oversee Yaquis in Tlaxcala who had been taken as war prisoners and sent to work in mines.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2022

The Yaquis wouldn’t have been given the green light from the Justice Department to launch the pilot project without Acosta, a longtime public defender — and she knows it.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2014

Again they were on the trail of the Yaquis.

From The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis by Willard F. Baker