Tetabiate (''Tetaviecti,'' meaning "Rolling Stone" in the
Yaqui
The Yaqui, Hiaki, or Yoeme, are a Native American people of the southwest, who speak a Uto-Aztecan language. Their homelands include the Río Yaqui valley in Sonora, Mexico, and the area below the Gila River in Arizona, Southwestern United Sta ...
or Yoeme language), also known as Juan Maldonado Waswechia Beltran (28 August 1857 – 9 July 1901), was the leader of the
Yaqui resistance to Mexican attempts to destroy their society and incorporate them fully into the Mexican state after the execution of
Cajemé
Cajemé / Kahe'eme ( Yoeme or Yaqui Language for "one who does not stop to drink ater'), born and baptized José María Bonifacio Leyba Pérez (also spelled Leyva and Leiva), was a prominent Yaqui military leader who lived in the Mexican state ...
in 1887.
Tetabiate was the son of Pablo Maldonado and Felipa Beltran, and was born in
Hermosillo
Hermosillo (), formerly called Pitic (as in ''Santísima Trinidad del Pitic'' and ''Presidio del Pitic''), is a city located in the center of the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora. It is the municipal seat of the Hermosillo municipality, the ...
,
Sonora, Mexico. He was baptized at the
Catedral de la Asunción, in Hermosillo, on August 31, 1857 (Iglesia Católica, 1857).
Following the death of
Cajemé
Cajemé / Kahe'eme ( Yoeme or Yaqui Language for "one who does not stop to drink ater'), born and baptized José María Bonifacio Leyba Pérez (also spelled Leyva and Leiva), was a prominent Yaqui military leader who lived in the Mexican state ...
on April 23, 1887, Tetabiate led the
Yaqui
The Yaqui, Hiaki, or Yoeme, are a Native American people of the southwest, who speak a Uto-Aztecan language. Their homelands include the Río Yaqui valley in Sonora, Mexico, and the area below the Gila River in Arizona, Southwestern United Sta ...
nation for the next 14 years in a guerrilla war against the
Porfirio government of Mexico. He was killed on July 9, 1901, in the
Bacatete Mountains of
Sonora, while fighting against Mexican forces under the command of
Loreto Villa (Chief of Yaqui Falls Fighting, 1901). It was reported that the son of Tetabiate, Guillermo, continued the fight against the Mexican forces after his father's death (Mexico's Yaqui War, 1902).
Sources
* Edward H. Spicer. (1962). ''Cycles of Conquest''. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
* Chief of Yaqui Falls Fighting. (1901)
''Los Angeles Herald.''Vol. 28, Number 304, 31 July 1901. p. 14.
* Iglesia Católica. (1857). Registros parroquiales: Bautismos Bautismos 1857–1860, La Asunción; Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. In " FHL INTL Film 671285," Microfilme de manuscritos en el archivo de la parroquia; La Asunción fue titular de la catedral metropolitana de la diócesis de Hermosillo. Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmado por la Sociedad Genealógica de Utah, 1968.
* Mexico's Yaqui War Result of Labor Troubles. (1902). ''The Denver Republican.'' 13 July 1902. p. 17
* Palemón Zavala Castro. (1991). ''El indio Tetabiate y la nación de los Ocho Pueblos del Río Yaqui = Ju-u io-eme Teta-biacti into jiac bat-ue u-oi naiqui pueplotam nacionata. '' Hermosillo, Sonora: Instituto Sonorense de Cultura.
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Yaqui people
1857 births
1901 deaths
19th-century Native Americans