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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 sufficient rest periods between, the heavy-bodied bird does not have the strength to fly or run away from the Tarahumara ...
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 ...
Tarahumaras Mexican Food, 212 Merriam Lane, Kansas City, Kansas, had 12 violations during a Feb. 23 routine inspection. Mi Ranchito , 13000 W. 95th St., Lenexa, had 11 violations during a Feb. 21 ...
Here are area restaurants with seven or more priority or critical health code violations, with highlighted links to some original public record reports.
The wood of P. brachybotrya is reddish brown in color and is suitable for woodturning. [6] Among the Tarahumara its leaves, which smell strongly of hydrogen cyanide, are used to kill fish when harvesting a pond, applied to deter insects from biting, and used in infusions to relieve coughs and other ailments.
The Mexican second-in-command at Tres Castillos, Juan Mata Ortiz, was killed by Juh in an ambush on November 13, 1882. [22] The Tarahumara sharpshooter, Mauricio Corredor, was killed in 1886 in an altercation between American and Mexican forces which also resulted in the death of the prominent American scout Emmet Crawford. Colonel Terrazas ...
Romayne Wheeler (born 1942) is a concert pianist, composer, writer and researcher who is best known for life and work with the Tarahumara people in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. While born in California, Wheeler has lived in various parts of the world, initially because of his father's work and later due to his own career as a pianist.
The ice skating legend made headlines last year when he had an estate sale to get rid of most of his possessions, but there was one item he simply had to keep.