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The Tarahumara commonly hunt with bow and arrows but are also known for their ability to run down deer and wild turkeys. Anthropologist Jonathan F. Cassel describes the Tarahumaras’ hunting abilities: "the Tarahumara literally run the birds to death in what is referred to as persistence hunting. Forced into a rapid series of takeoffs, without ...
Quercus tarahumara (also called Tarahumara oak) is a species of tree in the beech family. It grows in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the Mexican States of Chihuahua, Sonora, Durango, and Sinaloa. Some of the populations lie within the territory occupied by the Tarahumara people, after whom the species is named.
Along with chia, pinole is a staple food of Rarámuri (Tarahumara) people, [4] [5] an indigenous people of the Copper Canyon of Mexico. The name Rarámuri means "footrunners". [6]
The enslavement of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas is a neglected chapter in U.S. history. Two projects aim to bring it to light.
Hopi blue corn New Mexican blue corn for posole (L) and roasted and ground (R) Ears of corn, including the dark blue corn variety. Blue corn (also known as Hopi maize, Yoeme Blue, Tarahumara Maiz Azul, and Rio Grande Blue) is a group of several closely related varieties of flint corn grown in Mexico, the Southwestern United States, and the Southeastern United States.
Tarahumara moved further into the mountains in order to escape the conditions. [111] A smallpox epidemic caused a revolt in 1645. [114] A revolt arose in 1648, primarily among the Tarahumara. [111] A drought caused a pair of revolutions in 1650 and 1652. [114] The last major revolt began in March 1690 among the Tarahumara and ended in 1698. [115]
The river is sacred to the Lencas people and her efforts protected her tribe's access to water, food, and medicine. Her assassination in 2016 sparked global outrage and brought attention to the ...
Pleasant writes that this largely explains the value of the Three Sisters over monoculture cropping, as the system yields large amounts of energy, and at the same time increases protein yields; this polyculture cropping system yielded more food and supported more people per hectare compared to monocultures of the individual crops or mixtures of ...