{"product_id":"a-yaqui-life-rosalio-moises-9780803281752","title":"A Yaqui Life: The Personal Chronicle of a Yaqui Indian","description":"\"The reminiscences of a Yaqui Indian born in 1896 in northwestern Mexico whose story begins during the Yaqui revolutionary period, continues through the last uprising in 1926, and ends with  his] recollections of his life on a Texas farm from 1952 to 1969. The introduction by Professor Kelley adds scholarly analysis to the poignant autobiographical narrative.\"-Booklist \"A powerful chronicle. . . . It deserves an important place in the annals of American Indian oral history and literature.\"-Bernard L. Fontana, New Mexico Historical Review \"A valuable document . . . about the effects of the Di z Indian policy in Sonora on the human beings who were its object.  It] tells the story of the social limbo created by the shattering of families and corruption of personal relations under the relentless pressures of the Yaqui deportation program.\"-Edward H. Spicer, Arizona and the West \"The nightmare world of witchcraft and dream-dependence is one of the major fascinations of this strange and moving book. . . .  Its understatement] acquires a kind of fascinating power, as does the laconic stoicism of the Yaqui himself.\"-Southern California Quarterly Jane Holden Kelley, a professor of archaeology at the University of Calgary, is the author of Yaqui Women: Contemporary Life Histories (1978), also a Bison Book. Her father, William Curry Holden, a trained historian and anthropologist, met the Yaqui narrator of this chronicle, Rosalio Mois s, in 1934. They remained close friends until Mois s's death in 1969.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rosalio Mois駸, Jane Holden Kelley, William Curry Holden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803281757\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803281752\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90d","brand":"Rosalio Mois駸","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988267499775,"sku":"9780803281752","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_381cc64f-52b2-4a41-ba6d-66fb6264a266.jpg?v=1683293569","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-yaqui-life-rosalio-moises-9780803281752","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}