Book Excerpts — A curated collection of selected passages from books and publications that document how Yaqui people, histories, cultures, and identities have been described by outsiders. The excerpts provide an entry point for those new to these resources, offering insight into the writing styles, perspectives, and content found within them.
They invite reflection on who has recorded our histories, whose perspectives have been preserved, and how these narratives shape our understanding of Yaqui people.
PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN THE YOEME WORLD: Ethnoecology of the Yaquis in Sonora and Arizona
Authors: Richard Stephen Felger ; Felipe Sylvester Molina
This is a book about plants and animals in the Yoeme world, including the Yoem Bwiara in Sonora, Mexico, and the region of south-central Arizona where Yoeme communities formed during the diasporas of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We document more than 415 plant species and over 600 kinds (taxa) of animal life, and describe from historical and first-person accounts many of their relationships of the Yoemem and the ecology of the region. We present an overview of plants and animals in the Yoeme world and especially those in the Yoem Bwiara, including ones not know to have a specific use.
