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This is our collection of links to Yaqui stories and folktales that can be read online. We have indexed our Native American folklore section by tribe to make them easier to locate; however, variants on the same legend are often told by American Indians from different tribes, especially if those tribes are kinfolk or neighbors to each other. In particular, though these legends come from the Yaqui tribe, the traditional stories of related tribes like the Pima and Papago are very similar.
Itom Ae:
Mother Earth in traditional Yaqui religion (her name literally means "our mother.")
She was considered to be the mother and guardian of the
Yaqui people. After Catholicism was adopted by the Yaquis, she became merged with Jesus'
mother Mary (a situation that is common in Mexico, where pre-Columbian goddesses often
became absorbed into local versions of Mary.) Today, most Yaquis
consider the Virgin Mary and Itom Ae to be one and the same.
Yaqui Myths and Legends:The Surems and the Talking Tree 
Yomumuli and the Little Surem People: The Yaqui Curandero The Yaqui Doctor: The Enchanted Pascola:Ku Wikit The Ku Bird: How The Mountains Were Created:The Legend of Skeleton Mountain The Big Bird: The Snake People: The Singing Tree:Yaqui Myths and Legends:Deer Dance: Yaqui Legends of Life:The Deetkatoo:
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