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Flag of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona [1]. The Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona [1] is a federally recognized tribe of Yaqui Native Americans in the state of Arizona.. Descended from the Yaqui people whose original homelands include the Yaqui River valley in western Sonora, Mexico [2] and southern Arizona, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe sought refuge from the Mexican government en masse prior to the ...
Pilar M. Thomas is an American lawyer and a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona, for which she has served as attorney. She has worked on water rights, treaty rights, gaming law, and coordinated federal agency policies and efforts in tribal energy development. [1]
The law established a government-to-government relationship between the United States and the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, and gave reservation status to Pascua Yaqui lands. The Pascua Yaqui Tribe was the last Tribe recognized prior to the BIA Federal Acknowledgement Process established in 1978. In 2008, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe counted 11,324 voting members.
As was the case with many Indigenous communities, the Covid-19 pandemic heavily effected Moreno's reservation community in the early stages of the pandemic; as result he was a notable contributor to tribal vaccination efforts and appeared in several media campaigns by the Pascua Yaqui Tribe imploring his fellow tribal members to receive Covid ...
The Yaqui hoped Painter's pamphlet and work would prove their "authenticity" as American Indians to Congress. [10] [11] Painter and the Yaqui's work were eventually successful and the Yaqui were federally recognized. [1] In the 1960s, Painter served as the chair of the Housing Committee at Pascua and the chair of the Pascua Yaqui Association.
Jennings grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is a member of two indigenous tribes - the Huichol (Wixáritari) and Pascua Yaqui (Yoeme). Jennings received an associate of science in biology from Cabrillo College, and a bachelors of science in environmental science, technology and policy, with a minor in chemistry, from California State University, Monterey Bay. [2]
Map of states with US federally recognized tribes marked in yellow. States with no federally recognized tribes are marked in gray. Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [1]
Loretta Lucero Alvarez (nicknamed Mama and Nana; [2] 1892 – 30 December 1996) was a Pascua Yaqui midwife from the 1920s until the 1970s in Tucson, Arizona. Tucson's Kino Community Hospital named their labor and delivery unit after her. [3]