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- 1 2 Yetman, David (15 November 2010). The Ópatas: In Search of a Sonoran People. University of Arizona Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-8165-2897-4.
- ↑ Yetman, David (1 November 2012). Conflict in Colonial Sonora: Indians, Priests, and Settlers. UNM Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-5222-4.
- 1 2 Sheridan, Thomas E.; Polzer, Charles W. (1986). The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain: pt. 1. The Californias and Sinaloa-Sonora, 1700-1765. University of Arizona Press. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-8165-1692-6.
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