![]() Then open this this unique sliver of Yaqui culture not seen in print for many a year and immerse yourself in the tales and fables of the ancient American South West. WE INVITE YOU to curl up in front of your hearth with the fire crackling and spitting. The more the pity as there is no better way of keeping a culture alive than through story telling. However, some of the older Yaquis indicate that story-telling used to be more formalised in the time of their parents or in their own youth. They also tell stories when working in the fields. Yaquis say that stories are most often told, by men or women, in the evenings when a group happens to be gathered in the ramada or in the house by the fire. Nor are there special persons who are supposed to tell the myths or tales. Pascola stories, which are told at fiestas. There is no socially determined time or place for relating the myths or tales except in the case of STORY TELLING among the Yaquis is quite informal. There is also the story of the Peace At Pitahaya which was signed in 1909. the Mexican government baited the Yaquis, captured and sold them off as indentured workers then confiscated their land and moved settlers in. ![]() ![]() As such, you will also find stories of War Between The Yaquis And The Pimas and The Wars Against The Mexicans. YAQUI FOLK literature also expresses the tribe's sense of the sacred and material value of their territory, and the antiquity and distinctiveness of their customs. #BOBOK FROG YAQUI TRIBE PLUS#HEREIN you will find stories like Yomumuli And The Little Surem People, The Ku Bird, The Wise Deer, Tasi'o Sewa, Yuku, When Badger Named The Sun, Mochomo, The Walking Stone, The Stick That Sang, Cho'oko Baso plus many more. The 61 Yaqui folk and fairy tales and 90 pen and ink drawings in this comprehensive volume go quite a way to correcting this. At this time only about a score of Yaqui stories were to be found in published form. AS LATE AS the 1950’s no thorough collection or study has been made of Yaqui folklore. ![]()
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