Yaqui people

E348294

Indigenous people Native American people ethnic group

The Yaqui people are an Indigenous group native to the Sonoran Desert region of northern Mexico and southern Arizona, known for their rich ceremonial traditions, resistance to colonization, and distinctive language and culture.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Yaqui people canonical	13
Yaqui (neighboring people)	1
Yaqui people of Sonora, Mexico	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indigenous people ⓘ Native American people ⓘ ethnic group ⓘ
continent	North America ⓘ
country	Mexico ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
culturalPractice	ceremonial music ⓘ mask making ⓘ ritual dance ⓘ
culturalRegion	Oasisamerica ⓘ
ethnologueCode	yaq ⓘ
hasAutonym	Yoeme ⓘ
historicalConflictWith	Government of Mexico ⓘ surface form: Mexican government Spanish Empire ⓘ
knownFor	Deer Dance ⓘ Pascua Yaqui Easter ceremonies ⓘ ceremonial traditions ⓘ distinctive culture ⓘ distinctive language ⓘ resistance to colonization ⓘ
language	Yaqui language ⓘ
languageFamily	Uto-Aztecan ⓘ surface form: Uto-Aztecan languages
mainSettlement	Pascua Yaqui Reservation ⓘ Yaqui Valley ⓘ surface form: Río Yaqui valley
nativeTo	Arizona ⓘ Sonora ⓘ Sonoran Desert ⓘ
partOf	indigenous peoples of Mexico ⓘ surface form: Indigenous peoples of Mexico Native peoples of the Southwestern United States ⓘ
recognizedAs	federally recognized tribe in the United States ⓘ
recognizedBy	Government of Mexico ⓘ United States government ⓘ surface form: United States federal government
religion	Indigenous Yaqui religion ⓘ Roman Catholicism ⓘ syncretic Christianity ⓘ
selfDesignation	Yoeme ⓘ
suffered	forced relocation ⓘ land dispossession ⓘ military campaigns ⓘ
traditionalBelief	sacredness of the Río Yaqui ⓘ
traditionalCrop	beans ⓘ corn ⓘ squash ⓘ
traditionalEconomy	agriculture ⓘ fishing ⓘ hunting ⓘ
traditionalReligion	Yoeme religion ⓘ
usesScript	Latin alphabet ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Yaqui people
Description of subject: The Yaqui people are an Indigenous group native to the Sonoran Desert region of northern Mexico and southern Arizona, known for their rich ceremonial traditions, resistance to colonization, and distinctive language and culture.

Referenced by (15)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

indigenous peoples of Mexico → majorEthnicGroup → Yaqui people ⓘ

Ciudad Obregón → hasNearbyIndigenousCommunity → Yaqui people ⓘ

Pascua Yaqui Tribe → ethnicGroup → Yaqui people ⓘ

Pascua Yaqui Tribe → ethnicallyRelatedTo → Yaqui people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Yaqui people of Sonora, Mexico

Cajeme → indigenousPeople → Yaqui people ⓘ

Spanish–Native American wars → opposedBy → Yaqui people ⓘ

Estado de Sonora → containsIndigenousGroup → Yaqui people ⓘ

Río Yaqui → associatedWithEthnicGroup → Yaqui people ⓘ

Cahitan languages → usedBy → Yaqui people ⓘ

Yaqui language → spokenBy → Yaqui people ⓘ

Mayo people → ethnicallyRelatedTo → Yaqui people ⓘ

Comcáac → relatedEthnicGroup → Yaqui people ⓘ

this entity surface form: Yaqui (neighboring people)

Taracahitic languages → usedBy → Yaqui people ⓘ

Cahitan → associatedWithEthnicGroup → Yaqui people ⓘ

Cahitan → historicallySpokenBy → Yaqui people ⓘ