Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people of Sonora, a state of northwest Mexico, now also located in southern Arizona. Many Yaqui sought asylum in the United States in the early 1800s because of conflict with the Mexican government.
- noun The Uto-Aztecan language of the Yaqui.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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She further explored the issue in Yaqui Resistance and Survival: The Struggle for Land and Autonomy, 1821-1920.
Yaqui in exile: the grim history of Mexico's San Marcos train station 2009
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She further explored the issue in Yaqui Resistance and Survival: The Struggle for Land and Autonomy, 1821-1920.
Yaqui in exile: the grim history of Mexico's San Marcos train station 2009
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Don't know what to do about the barking problem (when Yaqui and the neighbors get into too intense a conversation, she has to go to the back roof, where all she still finds the occasional wandering cat which is at least worth a yip).
An old problem... 2009
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Yaqui in exile: the grim history of Mexico's San Marcos train station by
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Nevertheless, after Don Antonio moves the family from Mexico City to his large estate in distant Alamos (Don Porfirio had made him "master of all the land [Yaqui land] and people around him"), Austrian-born Frank follows her there and soon finds employment as a mechanic in Las Animas Silver Mine.
Drums in the Hills by Frank O. Dolezal and Kathryn Dolezal Tyler 2009
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Yaqui in exile: the grim history of Mexico's San Marcos train station by
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In Sonora, they saw a Yaqui Indian who had, etched on his collar, the clasp of a sword.
El Fuerte in Sinaloa, Mexico, was once the capital of Arizona 2009
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Yaqui in exile: the grim history of Mexico's San Marcos train station by
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Indian conflicts (eg the Yaqui war) smoldered on until 1936.
El Fuerte in Sinaloa, Mexico, was once the capital of Arizona 2009
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Yaqui in exile: the grim history of Mexico's San Marcos train station by
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