Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1921-02-24
YAQUI YIELD,
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TURN TO PEACE
Lay Down Arms After 400 Years
on the Warpath.
TAKE UP SHOVELs AND psEs

Have Held Their Mountain Valleys
| and Villages IN stats Of sonora 10
Northwest Mexico Against All Com
era Ever slnes They Arrived There.
Long Before the Coming Of the
| Spanish conqssIstadoFes IN 1870
Sign Treaty with obre1on.
The last tribe Of Indians Of North
America. and the last but two 10 the
new world. has yielded TO the march o.
civilization aud, after nearly 400 years
Of constant warfare against the whites.
laid down its knives 70 pick up ahoyels
and hoes. and turned IN rs riiies IN ex-
change for tractors and harrows. The
tribe, which still numbers so4newhaf
more than 5000 individuals is the
Yauul. who nave held their mountain
valleys and villages IN the state d
Sonora. In the northwest corner Of
Mexico, against All Corners, ever since
they arrived there. supposedly 10 the
AthapascaD migration, possibly later,
but certainly before the coming II che
Spanish ConquIstadores. In 1920. for
these Iberinn adventures found the
Yaqul a powerful tribe. whom neither
they nor their Mexican successors IN
the land Of manana have been able to
subdus
Yet, this fan, II. n. Dunn tells the
Dearborn Independent, the Yaqui eel
der iasn," led BY Chief Mort. went vol
unfairly to Hcfnoslllo, the capital Of
the Mexican state Of Sonora. and there
hound themselves BY treaty. not only 70
forego their raids on the Mexican vii
lagos Of the coast and to permit en-
pl0fation Of their country b. geoIogiass
and mlneraiogists. but also 20 send their
young men and women with such ~ slse
older ones az may wieh TO 10 20 the
reservation set apart for them At
Posnm. son0ra. on which the Mexican
government 10 now erecting buildings
for their use. and installing ne InteH
agricultural machinery for their use 81
a farm demonstration school. Later. II
Is announced BY The aonOran eoyern-
menf. general Industrial school yin
be established there. teaching meehan-
teal trades as wen an farming.
Tools 81 psaes.
In addition to fhia reservation and
school. the YaquI have been given per.
manent hereditary tides 10 al the do
main they now occupy IN the mountains
al the headwnters OF the Ynqui and
Mayo and Fuerte rivers. wlth prefer
enee In the fliing on any and 81 gov
eminent lands they may wish 20 take
up. especially IN The cases OF those who
have no title or right 70 any Of the
tribal lands. The Yaqui agree 20 fur
nieh 300 young men annually for train.
ms IN the Mexican federal arms. each
years quota 70 be released from IT, en-.
listment a. shs expiration q three
years aerfice The government pledges
iiseif 70 srnd no armed expeditions 70
enforce any OF its laws. but to laave
the policing Of tho tribe sh0ae
on the poknm reservation 10 the
council 81 elder mon of The tfabr.
Ii return for the surrender IL some
1000 Mauscr and other modern rifles.
which the Yaqui hare taken IN their
raids. the government furnishes hunt
Ing rifles and ammunition, not 10 en-.
coed 1000. estimated 70 be the number
Of men and boys who win hunt The
government also agrees 70 furnish
Every adult male xaqm head Of fam.
: iiY. who will agree 70 cultivate faith.
fully tract o. land. q team u mules.
wagon. seed and such farming lfnple.
ments % ho may need, NJ cost. ihe n.
dian 70 pay for them Ia long time
yearly payments Some 800 Indians
already have asked FOR this equip
menf.
The story of this surender-~wflch
carries the memory back 10 the days of
the Five Nations. and follows down 70
GerDnlmo's last outbreak and arrest
Vas brought 70 the United States By
the first Yaqui ever 10 come to this
country on q mission % peace. he ls
Capt caJeme Mort. son Of the ruling
chief Of the Yaqul, who arrived 10 Nos
0rlenna on his way 10 the agricultural
demonstration stations In the sugar
cotton and rice districts u Louisiana
and the MisslaalppI Agricultural ana
Mechanical college. 70 study farming
methods nnd the use OF modern agrt
cultural machinery.
Captain Mori. who has been for Eve
years on the stan Of General plutnrco
Elias-Callea, former governor Of the
state Of Sonora, and one Of the leaders
IN the recent revolution which estab.
lished new government 80 Mexico.
was largely instrumental IN bringing his
father and the Yaqul tribesmeu to bend
their knees 70 civilization. but be gave
all the credit for the peace treaty 10
Gen. Aware obregon and 10 Gen. ELIAS
Gales
Four Centuries Of Warfare Enaed.
'1The cry Of al MexicC.~ he said. IL
Let rs have peace. II Ii natural that
! The mass Of the people. who have been
IT war among themselves for over ten
years. should be weary Of wnr. but
sometimes 4 seems impossible for me
10 believe TINT my people. who have
been ilghflug some invader or another
for four centuries or more, should have
made peace as they did, without bat
tie, solely on the word OF one or two
men 10 whom they had confidence.
"Isut they signed Il. and now the
many pnges 81 Mexican history stained
with deportntions. small wars. raids.