Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-17
YAQUI YIELD,
turn TO PEACE
Lay Down Arms After 400 Years
on the Warpath.
take UP SHOvELS and HOES

erS Ever since they arrived mere,
Long Before the Coming of the
Spanish conquistadores in 1920
Sign Treaty With obregon.
The last tribe Of Indians of North
America, and the last but two in the
new world, has yielded to the march Of
civilization and, after nearly 400 years
of constant warfare against the whites,
laid down it's knives to pick up shovels
and hoes, and turned in it's rifles in eX-
change for tractors and harrows. The
tribe, which still numbers somewhat
more than 5000 individuals, is the
Yaqui, who have held their mountain
valleys and villages in the state of
Sonora, in the northwest .corner of
Mexico, against all Corners, ever since
they arrived there, supposedly in the
Athapascan migration, possibly later,
but certainly before the coming of the
Spanish Conquistadores, in 1920. for
these Iberian Adventures found the
Yaqui a powerful tribe, whom neither
they nor their Mexican successors in
the land of manana have been able to
subdue.
Yet, this fall, H. H. Dunn tells the
Dearborn Independent, the Yaqui eel
der men," led by Chief Mort, went vol
unfairly to Hermosillo, the capital of
the Mexican state of Sonora, and there
bound themselves by treaty, not only to
forego their raids on the Mexican vii
lagos of the coast and to permit ex-
ploration of their country by biologists
and mineralogists, but also to send their
young men and women with such of the
older one as may wish to 6 to the
reservation set apart for them at
Potam, Sonora, on which the Mexican
government is now erecting buildings
for their use, and installing the latest
agricultural machinery for their use in
a farm demonstration school. Later, it
is announced by the Sonoran govern
ment, a general Industrial school will
be established there, teaching mechan-
ical trades as well as farming.
Tools of Peace.
In addition to this reservation and
school, the Yaqui have been given per-
manent hereditary titles to all the do
main they now occupy in the mountains
at the headwaters of the Yaqui and
Mayo and Fuerte rivers, with prefer
ence in the filing On any and all gov
eminent lands they may wish to take
up, especially in the cases of those who
have no title or right to any of the
tribal lands. The Yaqui agree to fur
nish 200 young men annually for train
ing in the. Mexican federal army, each
years quota to be released from it's en-
Nstment at the expiration of three
years service. The government pledges
itself to send no armed expeditions to
enforce any of it's laws, but to leave
the policing of the tribe-except those
on the Potam reservation-to the
council Of elder men of the tribe.
In return for the surrender of some
1000 Mauser and other modern rifles,
WHICH the Iaqui have taken in their
raids. the government furnishes hunt
ing rifles and ammunition, not to ex-
coed 1000, estimated to be the number
Of men and boys who will hunt. The
government also agrees, to furnish
every adult male Yaqui head of a fam
lily, who will agree to cultivate faith
fully a tract of land, q team Of mules,
wagon, seed and such farming imple-
ments as he may need, at cost, the In
dian to pay for them in longtime
yearly payments. Some 300 Indians
already have asked for this equip
ment.
The story of this surl'ender-which
carries the memory back to the days of
the Five Nations, and follows down to
Geronimo's last outbreak and arrest
was brought to the United States by
the first Yaqui ever to come to this
country or a mission of peace. He is
Capt. Cajeme Mori, son of the ruling
chief of the Yaqui. who arrived in New
Orleans, on his way TO the agricultural
demonstration stations in the sugar
cotton and rice districts of Louisiana
and the Mississippi Agricultural and
Mechanical college, to study farming
methods and the use of modern agri.
cultural machinery.
Captain Mort, who has been for five
years on the staff Of General Plutarco
EllaS-Calles, forl r." governor of the
state of Sonora, ;3t u Of the leaders
in he recent re son which estab-
lished a new 6 rl@Inent in Mexico,
vas largely instI& raeltal in bringing his
father and the 1Etqui tribesmen to bend
their knees to civilization, but he gave
all the credit for the peace treaty to
Gen. Alvaro Obregon and to Gen. Elias
Gales
Four Centuries of Warfare Ended.
"The cry of all Meyico," he said, lis
Let us have peace 1t is natural that
the mass of the people, who have been
at war among themselves for over ten
years, should be weary Of war, but
sometimes it seems impossible for me
to believe that my people, who have
been fighting some invader or another