Language/Yaqui/Culture/Flag

• The red color symbolizes the blood shed to protect the people, the land, the customs and religion.
• The white color symbolizes purity of spirit.
• The blue color signifies the sky where the Yaqui mother, Maala Mecha, and Yaqui father, Achi Taa'ah, reside.
• The 4 stars represent the cardinal directions of east, west, north and south.
• The moon represents the Yaqui mother, Maala Mecha, the mother of all creation.
• The sun represents the father, Achai Taa'ah, the father of all creation.
• The black cross represents the memory of all the ancestors who have died in the many wars.