Yaqui Women: Contemporary Life Histories

by Jane H. Kelley

Book Overview

The four life histories collected here--personal accounts of the Yaqui wars, deportation from Sonora in virtual slavery, life as soldaderas with the Mexican Revolutionary army, emigration to Arizona to escape persecution, the rebuilding of the Yaqui villages in post-Revolutionary Sonora, and life in the modern Yaqui communities--constitute remarkable documents of human endurance, valuable for both their historical and their anthropological insights...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803277741
• ISBN13: 9780803277748
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Yaqui Women

As a whole this book is very informative. It gave insight into every day Yaqui life.