{"product_id":"a-yaqui-life-the-personal-chronicle-of-a-yaqui-indian-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJane Holden Kelley, a professor of archaeology at the University of Calgary, is the author of \u003ci\u003eYaqui Women: Contemporary Life Histories\u003c\/i\u003e (1978), also a Bison Book. Her father, William Curry Holden, a trained historian and anthropologist, met the Yaqui narrator of this chronicle, Rosalio Moisés, in 1934. They remained close friends until Moisés's death in 1969.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328439882002,"sku":"9780803281752","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_00681c4c-48ce-4bd1-bb0d-1113a1d32d9a.jpg?v=1727740106","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-yaqui-life-the-personal-chronicle-of-a-yaqui-indian-9780803281752","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}