Arizona republican., 1911-12-24

can now certainly claim q later sur
 vival only. when at last the Aztecs
 bowed under the white flood, the
 Naquis moved farther on and kept
 Cn fighting
 They retreated at last to the Yaqui
 valley. thousand miles to the north iwest. and there made their final home.
 with the wild. impenetrable saw | edged ranges back of them for refuge
 This region that they have held is
 large enough for a kingdom Only
 Arizona bounded 1t on the north, only
 the Gulf of California on the west It
 covered 12,000 square miles. They
 built their huts of brush and wover
 grass along the banks of the sluggish
 ! laqui river, and while left alone set tied down again to their wonted pas-
 tcral life. following their old laws and l customs. wOrshipping their own gods | repeating their old legends, as, in | truth, they do this day. They num-
 hered, it is said, 3O0,0OO when Cortez | fought them, but in their new home they were a weakened tribe. In one short war they had lost 25,O0O. Stin ! the valley was wide and fertile, and N4''N lAOpNu tp bF IdppN.
 But the mountains were rich. too. and that was their curse, as it is to- day. The white men did not need their fields. but gold and silver the white men desired at once So. ere long. the white men went even there Though the Jesuit priests were all lowed to come, any Spaniard who came with miners pick needed an army. Each mine that was dug. though few Yaquis might for time be captured and ensaved to work in them. usually marked, after while, enc more scene Of massacre. Then the mine was covered over, and even the trail leading to it, and another legend was added to the legends of lost mines. whose fabulous wealth pros pectors continue to seek, much as krag sought the Veta Negra (Black Nein) during many patient years.
 All this meant constant warfare against the Spanish conqueror. and to 1 the last the Yaquis he'd out while all | the rest of Mexico acknowledged | Spain's vicrroy. In l735, for instance. | they beat q Spanish army in open | battle. and forced the Spaniards to | duplicity.
 Naturally. when all Mexico revolted | against Spain. tho unconquered "a. quis joined their conquered brethren. and showed them how to fight For ,'.ree centuries they had waited their chance for such blow, and when the char2e came, they were like ravenous tigers.
 But Mexican independence and Ya- cui independence were two different things. The Yaquis had merely chang Cd their foes, and soon. almost at once, they had to fight again. Tn is25. in 1892, in 1891. there were wars. " hen Chief Banderas led his peop.c. defended the mountain trails and kept cut the MeNicans for years
 A hope of peaceful possession of their valley came, curiouSly enough. m vet another war. This was in IS4s. IF MeNicO's war with the United states. The Mexicans went to the aquis with promises of land. and he 1aquis fought the Americans But since that time the Yaquis have never 'een at peace with the Mexicans. not Iulls brought about by NN@'''' 'i p'HN'- I At L'AltdiS, II , eemed. forgot their promises, and |, gain the Yaquis had to figh, for , heir fields of grain and their flocks. has been half century of almost onstant warfare. Even HOttentot though he fights -ith cub hewn from a tree. must ave the sinews of war That is. he < lust eat. It was so of the Yaquis i nd this was the situation found by m krag when he virtually made J imself one of them. The old and i le young starved themselves to buy ,s rms, while the women hood the eds. But the Mexicans changed the F aqui trail into d military road. so lat they came upon the growing -ops. and destroyed them. Yet. il. me way the little Yaqui children, O! ;e elusivcn"ss of scrpents. crcpt back C nd forth through the Mexican lines. A ld carried corn and gunpowdcr to oi le warriors in the mountains. "a But whence came the money to buy a' 'rn and gunpowder? Here enters the T lqui pacifico (peaceful Indiap) SO fl lied and well described by Lyle iu V s book. Perhaps he has dwelt in T.; Q settlements since the third or 1T urth generation back. doing the ui hite mans work for the highest ot to 2 ges. Until he himself hears the es II Of his own wild blood. and takes th the sierra, he gives his wages into aC
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