Account exploration, conquest, missionization Sinaloa from Cabeza de Vaca to fr. Gonzalo Tapia. Includes accounts de Vaca, Coronado, Francisco de Ibarra expeditions. Etymology cahita word yorim from verb yore, meaning to heal-applied to Spaniards because of Cabeza de Vaca's reputation curer. Other meanings-valiant ones, fierce beasts, demons. Description province Sinaloa including land, Weather, rivers, surrounding geography. Enumeration Indian pueblos population for Rios Mocorito, Petatlan, Cinaloa, Mayo (10 pueblos, pop. 3850), Yaqui (8-5250), Nebome-Seri (8-2400), Aybino/ Vatuca (5-1200), Sonoras/Huris (pop. 800). Description flood plain inundation agriculture, summer planting season only, floodwater fertilization, crops (maiz, squash, beans of many varieties, tzoale, nicauatl, and others), wild food gathering, hunting. Account linguistic diversity. Notes Mayos, Yaquis spoke basically same language. Estimation population more than 100,000 before diseases. Brief account alcoholic beverages, religious beliefs (including woman named Huayerubi who taught Indians to plant), kinship systems, loose political/legal organization, marriage practices, Games, fiestas, house styles. (T. Sheridan) (1976)

Testimony taken by Juez visitador Rafael Rodriguez Gallardo from some 100 Pima, Mayo and Yaqui Indians who were forced to work in various projects around the presidio of San Pedro de la conquista against their will. Soldiers and others familiar with the case are also interviewed concerning the Indians and their treatment, working conditions, punishments, torture, pay etc. Are described. Lists of some 80 Indian prisoners and their respective pueblos and tribes are included. Excellent ethnographic material. (D. Deeds) (1977)

An elaborate report and description of 16 missions in the Sierra Madre of Nueva Vizcaya which dealt with upper and Lower Tarahumares, Tepehuanes and Pima Alta Indians. Presenting a comprehensive picutre of physical reality and life in the missions. The report covers location, rivers, geography, agriculture, animals, illness, tools, mineralogy, economy, wealth of missions, condition of buildings. The mission as an institution administration and more. (D. Deeds) (1976)

Date unknown, author unknown, this is an account by a Jesuit of what he learned from people who knew the fathers of the Parral missions and what befell the area after they were secularized. Conflict, disease, and dispersion of the Indians were the result according to this account. (D. Deeds) (1976)

Though undated and incomplete, this portion of a report from a governor of Nueva Vizcaya offers information on local conditions along the roads, Indian relations and a long commentary on the location of presidios and their character, soldiers morale and pay and location of Spanish settlements. (D. Deeds) (1976)

Contains much linguistic information (regarding the use of Spanish, an example of how an Indian speaks Spanish, a list of Tegua-speaking pueblos, linguistic differences among pueblos in close proximity). Contains ethnographic data- architecture, celebrations, bathing and birthing practices (under the heading of decadence), warfare behaviors and technology, agricultural production and grain processing. Also examples of exchange Rate, goods for pesos. Names kinds of fish eaten. (R. Perez) (1977)

Regulations, rules of conduct, etc. For the office of viceroy of New Spain. (R. Perez) (1977)

Financial allocations to soldiers who fought in the Pima revolt. For the milicianos- 9,385 pesos. List of soldiers from Horcasitas, and their pay. Lists of vecinos auxiliaries, and their pay in parenthesis, from- Pimeria Alta (40 pesos); Ostimuri (58 pesos); Valle of Sonora, Oposura, real del Carrizal (52 pesos); el Fuerte (88 pesos); Sinaloa and Santiago (81 pesos). (R. Perez) (1977)

Continuation of previous entry. Important and interesting testimony by many Pima governors (See 022 this entry). Detailed descriptions of the events in their pueblos. Of special note is that most of these pueblos revolted upon hearing the news of other acts of rebellion, without ever having met any of the so-called ringleaders'. (R. Perez) (1977)

Continuation of investigation into Pima revolt. Of interest are testimonies by- capitan Tel (defends padres); Bustamente (eyewitness at Tubutama); de la Cruz (eyewitness at Tubutama); lt. Escalante (descriptions of campaigns against Pimas, discounts claims that the padres were at fault, gives some general ethnographic information); Vildosola (eyewitness at San Luis Valley and Sonoita); Cazares (eyewitness at Guevavi); and Calbo (a good, eyewitness account of the initial events at Saric. (R. Perez) (1977)