Pascua Yaqui - background

Pascua Yaqui, Arizona is located near Tucson in southern Arizona, which is in the southwestern region of the United States. There is a Pascua Yaqui tribe and my title-post links to this American Indian / Native American tribe's official website.

The computer clubhouse is associated with the Boys and Girls Club, and is located on the reservation (tribal land).

According to this 1999 report, Commerce in Pascua Yaqui (PDF), approximately 3,000 people live on the reservation. Unemployment is over 20%.

A discussion of the Pascua Yaqui's Approach to Language/Culture Preservation:

"The language competency of the members of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe encompasses, to varying degrees, the Yaqui language as well as community dialects of both Spanish and English. Even though this unique trilingual linguistic pattern has been functional for their survival needs, it has also served as a barrier to educational achievement where competency in the standard forms of Spanish and English is required. Because of the considerable discontinuities that exist between the sphere of public educational institutions and those of the Yaqui community, many Yaquis have not acquired functional literacy in any of their three languages.

In responding to the broader educational and social needs of its members, the Tribe has focused its educational program development efforts on reviving and encouraging the use of the Yaqui language in order to promote a language and cultural renaissance, encompassing both the desire to reassert the role of the language in the culture, as well as to provide a vehicle for enhancing the attainment of improved English and Spanish skills."


Here are links that will provide insight into the Pascua Yaqui history and culture:

• Pascua Yaqui Connection
• History and Culture
• Short History