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GuarijiosGuarijios call themselves "macurawe" or "macoragüi", term that means "those who hold on to the land" or "those who walk on the land." |
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MayosAccording to the group's tradition, the word "mayo" means "people from the shore". Mayos refer to themselves as yoremes, "the people that respects tradition", and call white men yori, "the one who does not respect". They also call "torocoyori", "that who treasons, that who denies tradition" to Mayos who deny their roots and compromises. |
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OpatasOpata literally means "enemies" they used to be called by their neighbors, the Pimas. Actually opatas are a tribe of Piman stock. Little is known about them, because their tribe extinguished more than a century ago. |
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PapagosXIX century they were named Papagos, which means something like 'bean eaters' or 'Pima bean eaters,' since their main crop were beans. |
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PimasThe term "pima" designates the ethnic and linguistic group that lives in the Sierra Madre Occidental where the southeastern part of Sonora and the southwestern part of Chihuahua meet. |
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YaquisThe Yaquis traditionally lived in the bay and valley of the southern part of Sonora, from the southern bank of the Yaqui river to the Tetakawi hill. |
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KikapuKikapues call themselves kikaapoa, which means "the ones that go by the land". Kikapus were settled in Sonora since the mid-nineteenth century when they bought a common land from the government, where they live nowadays. |
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CucapaIn the northwestern limits of the state of Sonora, inside San Luis Rio Colorado border with Arizona, we find the “Pozas de Arvizu” common land, place of the settlement of the Cucapa or “Cocopah”.more info |
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