Yaqui Quotes

“Strangely it came to Gale then that he was glad. Yaqui had returned to his own — the great spaces, the desolation, the solitude — to the trails he had trodden when a child, trails haunted now by ghosts of his people, and ever by his gods. Gale realized that in the Yaqui he had known the spirit of the desert, that this spirit had claimed all which was wild and primitive in him.”
― Zane Grey, Desert Gold

“El exterminio de los yaquis empezó con la guerra y el fin de ellos se está cumpliendo con la deportación y la exclavitud.”
― John Kenneth Turner, Barbarous Mexico: Enriched edition. Unveiling Mexico's Dark Past: Corruption, Atrocities, and the Fight for Justice

“Cuando los hombres yaquis son azotados, mueren de verguenza; pero las mujeres podemos resistir el ser golpeadas; no morimos.”
― John Kenneth Turner, México Bárbaro