Native American Authors

Felipe Molina

Pascua Yaqui
Yaqui

Felipe Molina is a Yoeme (Yaqui) from Arizona. His background is in native education and literacy. His career includes teaching in Yaqui community schools and colleges from 1974-1991. Molina is a member of the Yaqui Language Commission of the Pascua Pueblo and from 1978-1980 he was governor of the Yoem Pueblo Marana, Arizona. He was Representative of the Yoem Pueblo on the Pascua Yaqui Tribal Council from 1981-1982. Currently, Molina is Diabetes Project Coordinator for Native American Communities at native Seeds/SEARCH, a Tucson based nonprofit organization that promotes the preeervation of native plant resources.

Online resources by or about Felipe Molina:

How The Mountains Were Created
Author: Felipe Molina
Type: etext
Description: “As told by Paula Castillo to her son Felipe S. Molina.” From Larry Evers, ed. The South Corner of Time.Tucson, Ariz.: The University of Arizona Press, 1980, p. 211.
URL: http://www.library.arizona.edu/yaqui/southcorneroftime/mountns.html
Yaqui Alphabet
Author: Felipe Molina
Type: etext
Description: From Larry Evers, ed. The South Corner of Time.Tucson, Ariz.: The University of Arizona Press, 1980, p. 188.
URL: http://www.library.arizona.edu/yaqui/southcorneroftime/yaquialphabet.html

Books by Felipe Molina:

Molina, Felipe. Coyote Songs
Tucson, AZ : Chax Press, 1989.
Genre: Poetry
Language: Yaqui, English

Molina, Felipe. Yaqui deer songs, Maso Bwikam : a native American poetry
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1987.
Genre: Poetry
Language: Yaqui, English
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0816509913

Molina, Felipe. Yoeme-English English-Yoeme : with a comprehensive grammar of Yoeme language
New York : Hippocrene Books, 1999.
Genre: Reference
Language: Yaqui, English
ISBN: 078180633X

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