Yaqui people

The Yaqui, Hiaki, or Yoeme people, are an ethnic group native to Mexico (Native American tribe), who speak the Yaqui language, an Uto-Aztecan language.

In the past, the Yaqui people subsisted on agriculture, growing beans, corn and squash (like many of the Indigenous peoples of the region). The Yaqui people who lived in the Río Yaqui region and in coastal areas of Sonora and Sinaloa fished as well as farmed. The Yaqui people also made cottonproducts. The Yaqui people have always been skillful warriors. The Yaqui Indians have been historically described as quite tall in stature. Yaqui men have an average height of 5 feet 11.25 inches (1.81 m) and Yaqui women have an average height of 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m).

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