For non-Yaquis it is difficult to fully grasp the blend of ancient Yaqui beliefs and the religion taught to them by Jesuit priests in the 1500s, but they successfully melded the two into a unique belief system that includes their beloved deer dancer.    more... The Yaqui people have used oral traditions to pass their rich history from one generation to the next. This is the history of the Yaqui as told by Ernesto Quiroga Sandoval, Historian, Pascua Yaqui Tribe.    more... Jose Maria Leiba Peres was born in Pesiou, Sonora in the year of 1837. His parents were Francisco Leiba and Juana Peres.    more... Mission 2000 is a database of Spanish mission records of southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico containing baptisms, marriages, and burials from the late 17th to the mid-19th centuries. It now (September 2002) contains nearly 6000 events, over 13,000 people and their known personal information.    more... One day in the very hot month of August, the season of picking pitayas, a desert tortoise was walking along under the branches of the large pitayas cactus. She was eating the red and juicy pitayas that had fallen to the ground.    more... "We had been told in a revelation from Heaven, that God had given to the Yaquis a homeland around the Yaqui River." See pictures from Rio Yaqui, Sonora, Mexico.    more...