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"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 Diaz Indian policy in Sonora on the human beings who were its object. [It] tells the story of the soci...
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Rosalio Moisés was born in 1896 in the Mexican state of Sonora, spent his early years at the Colorada Mine in the Sierra Madre Occidental. He went to live with his grandparents in Hermosillo and later to Arizona. After the end of hostilities in his home land he moved back to the Yaqui Valley. Enduring many difficulties he later moved to Texas where he lived and worked on a farm. Rosalio died in May of 1969 in Tucson, Arizona.