Yaqui
noun
a member of an Indigenous people of Sonora, Mexico, now living also in other parts of northwestern Mexico and in Arizona and Texas.
Yaquis
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pluralof Yaqui.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
While some still farm the surrounding fields, most Yaquis work as gardeners, bricklayers or laborers in neighboring cities.
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
How come you heard all this, Bill—I mean about the Yaquis?
From The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis by Willard F. Baker
