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Yaqui
Resistance and Survival
The Struggle for Land
and Autonomy, 1821–1920
Evelyn Hu-DeHart
"An exemplary narrative political history of Yaqui-Mexican
relations. It is a milestone in Mexican historiography, for we
cannot fully understand the unique nature of the North and its
place in Mexican history without a full explanation of relations
with the major indigenous peoples of the region."—Mark Wasserman, Americas
Among Mexico's indigenous populations, the Yaqui Indians
of Sonora have most successfully repelled threats to their identity,
land, and community. Interested in explaining how the relatively
"small" nation withstood four centuries of contact
with white culture, Evelyn Hu-DeHirt focuses here on the Indians'
response to shifting environmental pressures in the period 1820
to 1910—an increasingly violent, and ultimately decisive,
chapter in their lives.
Evelyn Hu-DeHart is
Associate Professor of History at Washington University. She
has contributed studies of Mexican history to a variety of scholarly
journals and is the author of Missionaries, Miners, and Indians:
History of Spanish Contact with the Yacqui Indians of Northwestern
New Spain, 1533–1820.
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June 1984
LC: 83-040265
F
312 pp. 6 x 9
12 illus., 2 maps
ISBN-13: 978-0-299-09660-1
Cloth
The cloth edition of this title is now out
of print.
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