Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-01-10
YAQU| INDIAN
AT OLD TRICK
OF OUTBREAKS
TR0UBL E-HAKER or NORTHERN
MEXICO HAS BEEN At 1T FOR GEN
ERETIONS AND RECENT OUTBREAK
is BUT ONE OF LARGE NUMBERS.

IlEKMOSlLLU. Son. Mex. Jan. 10
Th. Nauu. Indian hu, hccu the trouble
maker nt Northwestern Mexico ton genera
tlon- and hi- recent outbreak An but onc M
\. large number which have occurred during
the administrations II Diaz, Madero ana
other leaders.
Starring with the Bronco laquI along
the iiu YaVu IN Southwestern Sonora ear
IN M September. the revolt haa spread io
many of rhr allied tribes. including the
Mun>o- Yagul- who have been peaceful ~
the past and who derived their names from
the fact They worked with their hands.
III THE rich Naqul river valley Vt South
western Sonora the Indian uprising ha~
had it~ center The Indian towns n Po-
tam. Vacuum. Bacum. IL Colorado ANA
Suauu Grandc have been scenes 81 varou,
Indian rand, and Mexican federal troops
have been unable to make any great head
way III cunquerng these warrng tribes
men. The revolt reached it helght after
the fall harvc-t~ of corn beans and gar
Eazo- had been harvested. Storchou~e~
where these crops were PM away Tor the
winter were looted and the Indians extend
cd ther field VI operations far north.
toward IIermo~illo. the capital AmmunI-
ton and rifles were ~mugglc- across the
sonora border for them and q number ri
engagements fought between the laqm-
and the icdcral~ resulted III the routing otI
the government troops.
The basic cause ot the unrest among
these northwestern Mexico Indians H. the
land problem. AT one lime these Indians
owned AMI titled thousands of acres ot the
most fertile land IN the republic which was
watCred hy the YaQpi river. These lands
were gradually conti~cated by the various
governments and parceled ont to favortc~
VI the ruling powers. The Indians clam
they were given inferior lands IN place Nj
their original holdings and insist upon the
restoration OF these tribal holdings. One
American company now controls 3O0.UUO
acres Of land in the laqui country, much
If which y claimed w the Indians.
The Nauui tribes were originally agrl
cultural people with bent Tor hunting in
the mountains during the winter. They are
~tocky, sturdy and possess many of the
has lately been one VI their chief occupa-
tions ~ they have been on the warpathI
either i'll their own interest or for the varI-
on, dc facto governments for ID years.
During the days of President nlaz thc1
laquis were di>po9~eS~ed Of much of their
fertile valley lands BY General Torres, the
federal governor of Sonora. Large num-
hers were deported from the state by boat
to the hot lands of Nucatan and to Tres
Marias Island, off the coast OF Tepcc.
This was one of the chief grievances which
caused the laqui war. This war continued
until the outbreak Of the Madcro revolu-
tion when the Indians Joined with Madero
against their sworn enemies Of the old fed
eral regime.
They did much of the hard fighting dur
inc the Madero and subsequent revolutions,
at Celaya, where they were Gen
eral Obregon'~ chief mainStay when Villa
and his powerful army attacked the en-
trenchcd positions of Ohregon'~ Carranza
force. The laqui~ were gwen much of the
credit for this victory which shattered
Villas dream of political power and drove