Yaqui
Americannoun
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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.
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Also called Yoem Noki. the Uto-Aztecan language of the Yaqui.
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a river in northwestern Mexico, flowing into the Gulf of California. 420 miles (676 kilometers) long.
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Etymology
Origin of Yaqui
First recorded in 1860–65; from Mexican Spanish, from earlier Hiaquis (plural), from Yaqui hiaki, hiyaki “the Yaqui River”
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That invitation begins at mile 18, where the Yaqui Pass Road turnoff leads northeast toward the desert basin and the gateway community of Borrego Springs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
Burgundy Trejo Phoenix, an Yaqui actress who voices a character named Squash in “Spirit Rangers,” first connected with the Chapter House when it screened the Season 4 finale of the kids show in April.
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
Drafting regulations specific to the tribe, like the ones the Pascua Yaqui are doing, “would bring a lot of peace of mind to our whole community,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2023
“He was trying to show me how little chance I would stand against El Gavilan or even the Yaqui slave traders if they ranged up towards the border.”
From The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Amick, Robert Wesley
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
Cota said the river was crucial to the Yaquis.
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
Oh, the Yaquis are risin' up all right, and they may come out here.
From The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis by Baker, Willard F.
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