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”My Wa’alupe Yaqui Identity: Family, Cemetery, Church, and Guadalupe School” By Octaviana Valenzuela Trujillo

Studies on indigenous history and culture of our Pascua Yaqui Tribe have stimulated a genre of literature that has shaped the way we understand the historical processes of community formation and re-establishment patterns of mobility, and the continuity of our indigenous identity. Too frequently, anthropological studies examine indigenous peoples through a dichotomous lens that views us as static or displaced. Instead, we believe that indigenous peoples’ histories should be placed at the center of an analysis that portrays us as active social participants. We know that we shape our destiny.

Photographs, government documents and other archival material are shared to recount the stories and memories of the families forming the history and resilience of the people of Guadalupe.