We will dance our truth Yaqui history in Yoeme performances - Shorter, David Delgado (University of Nebraska Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-356) and index
Introduction: Talking about where Yoeme history begins -- Geography of Yoeme identities -- Putting worlds into words -- Listening to the tree and hearing history -- Our history of nuestros triunfos -- Reconsidering "writing" and the proof of history -- Hunting for history in Potam Pueblo -- Yoeme place-making : acts of loving and giving -- Conclusion: Potam Pueblo enacted
In this innovative, performative approach to the expressive culture of the Yaqui (Yoeme) peoples of the Sonora and Arizona borderlands, David Delgado Shorter provides an altogether fresh understanding of Yoeme worldviews. Based on extensive field study, Shorter's interpretation of the community's ceremonies and oral traditions as forms of "historical inscription" reveals new meanings of their legends of the Talking Tree, their narrative of myth-and-history known as the Testamento, their fabled deer dances, funerary rites, and church processions