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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
Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 42 x 19 cm.
Other titles: Wo'i bwikam
Co-Author: Evers, Larry

Molina, Felipe. Yaqui deer songs, Maso Bwikam : a native American poetry
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1987.
Genre: Poetry
Language: Yaqui, English
Description: 239 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Co-author : Larry Evers.
Series: Sun tracks. v. 14.
English and Yaqui.
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
Description: 351 p. ; 22 cm. p.
Series: Hippocrene standard dictionary.
Co-authors: Herminia Valenzuela, David Leedom Shaul.
Other Titles: Yoeme-English English-Yoeme standard dictionary.
ISBN: 078180633X


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