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Tehueco, is a town in El Fuerte Municipality, in the State of Sinaloa. It was named for the fierce Tehueco, one of the Native American people, who resisted the Spaniard conquest of Sinaloa. Tehueco is the seat of the Tehueco Sindicatura one of seven sindicaturas that El Fuerte Municipality is subdivided into.
In 1610 a fort was built to ward off the fierce Zuaque and Tehueco Native Americans, who constantly harassed the Spaniards. For years, El Fuerte served as the gateway to the vast frontiers of the northern territories of Sonora , Arizona and California , all of which were sparsely populated by unyielding tribes of native amerindians.
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The term includes the Yaqui, Mayo, and Tehueco peoples. [2] Early Jesuit missionaries kept detailed documentation about these people in the colonial era. The Cáhita numbered approximately 40,000 in the 20th century. [3] [needs update]
Another early 17th-century Jesuit first recorded the term Cahita, which refers to the Hiaki, Mayo, and Tehueco. [9] Mid-19th-century Mexican scholars used Yaqui and Hiaqui interchangeably and broadened the term Cahita to refer to more regional peoples.
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Urrea was born in 1873 in Ocoroni, Sinaloa.Her father, Tomás Urrea, was from Álamos, Sonora and owned a "rancho" in Cábora, to the northeast of Álamos.Her mother, Cayetana Chávez, was an indigenous 14-year-old ranch hand from Tehueco.