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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

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador last month apologized to the Yaquis for past abuses and promised a series of infrastructure programs to improve their lives.

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

Having shown their mettle, in 1610 the Yaquis made peace and asked for missionaries.

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