Unos indios para “civilizar”: los yaquis ante el “progreso”, 1875-1900

The article highlights that the Sonoran elites considered themselves as “white”, bearers of progress and civilization. The Yaquis needed to be “civilized”, given their backward condition, due to their “race”. The lower delta of the Yaqui and Mayo rivers was an area in which the Yaquis had remained and from which they obtained products and traded. The text concludes that, by the end of the 19th century, the “civilized” had not generated relevant changes in the lower delta, so that the indigenous resistance has part of its explanation in that the space they considered theirs, was an area that made it possible to maintain their economic activities and their way of understanding their relationship with God.