{"product_id":"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\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A valuable document . . . about the effects of the Diáz 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane 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 Moisés, in 1934. They remained close friends until Moisés's death in 1969.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030394388720,"sku":"9780803281752","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780803281752_p0.jpg?v=1763728337","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780803281752","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}