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Jerome M. Levi: "Tarahumara (Rarámuri)", In: David Carrasco, editor-in-chief. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, Vol. 3. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001: 183–185. Joseph Wampler: Mexico's 'Grand Canyon': The Region and the Story of the Tarahumara Indians and the F.C. Chihuahua al Pacifico, (Berkeley: Self-Published, 1978.
The nonfiction book Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, chronicling the story of ultra-runner Micah True in the Copper Canyon with the Tarahumara Indians, who taught him a better way to run. [5] [6] True was the race director of the Copper Canyon Ultra Marathon, [7] [8] which ends in Urique's plaza. The race covers 50 miles (80 km) of single ...
Native people of the region, Tarahumara or Rarámuri Indians called the area Bachotigori, meaning "Place of the enclosed waters", as they described the canyon, and its abundance of tropical flora and fauna to the Spanish explorers travelling through this rough part of the Chihuahuan mountains. Batopilas is a mangled Spanish version of the ...
Map of the Tarahumara Province titled Mappa circum iacentes regiones (tarahumaras), [2] drawn by Ratkaj in 1683. The original is kept in the central Jesuit archives in Rome. [3] Ratkaj was born in Ptuj (Duchy of Styria, now northeastern Slovenia) to the Ratkaj noble family, barons of Veliki Tabor.
Sierra Tarahumara or Tarahumara is the name of the region of the Sierra Madre from the Durango border north. The name comes from the Tarahumara ( Rarámuri ) people and language . [ 6 ] This is a dramatic landscape of steep mountains and ravines, formed by a high plateau that has been cut through with canyons; Copper Canyon is, in places ...
The Americas, Western Hemisphere Cultural regions of North American people at the time of contact Early Indigenous languages in the US. Historically, classification of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas is based upon cultural regions, geography, and linguistics.
I have met Native people across Wisconsin who, after years of persistent discrimination, do not believe their voice matters. Our voices matter.
The Toboso were classed as "ladinos" Indians by the Spaniards, a term meaning "cunning" and indicating they knew the Spanish way of life and used it to be more effective in fighting the Spanish. [2] The Toboso also made significant raids against the Tarahumara missions and ranches in the 1690s. [3]