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Tamales and beans are a common food that the Tarahumara carry with them on travels. Wheat and fruits were introduced by missionaries and are a minor source of nutrition. The fruits grown by the Tarahumara include apples, apricots, figs, and oranges. The Tarahumaras also eat meat, but this constitutes less than 5% of their diet.
Poi is a traditional staple food in the Polynesian diet, made from taro.Traditional poi is produced by mashing cooked taro on a wooden pounding board (papa kuʻi ʻai), with a carved pestle (pōhaku kuʻi ʻai) made from basalt, calcite, coral, or wood.
Various food-producing plants were introduced to the island by the migrating Polynesian peoples. Botanists and archaeologists believe that these voyagers introduced anywhere from 27 to more than 30 plants to the islands, mainly for food. The most important of them was taro.
Ahi limu poke: raw fish with limu. Limu, otherwise known as rimu, remu or ʻimu (from Proto-Austronesian *limut) [1] is a general Polynesian term for edible plants living underwater, such as seaweed, or plants living near water, like algae.
Salvia tiliifolia (lindenleaf sage or Tarahumara chia) is a vigorous, herbaceous annual in the family Lamiaceae that is native to Central America.As a pioneer of abused areas, the plant has spread in modern times into: South America, as far south as Peru and Bolivia; the southwestern regions of the United States, including the states Texas and Arizona; Africa, including South Africa and ...
The Rarámuri Criollo is a landrace biotype of Criollo cattle indigenous to the Sierra Tarahumara region of the Copper Canyon, Mexico. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 2005 a small group was introduced to the Jornada Experimental Range (JER) in New Mexico , in the United States for scientific study.
The Toboso also made significant raids against the Tarahumara missions and ranches in the 1690s. [3] In the 1680s the Jumano at La Junta were so little aligned with the Toboso that Juan Sabeata was still willing to cooperate with Juan de Retana after Retana spent some time fighting against the Toboso. [4] The Toboso were organized by bands.
The Tarahumara frog (Lithobates tarahumarae) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae found in Mexico and the southwestern United States, where it became regionally extinct in the early 1980s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Contributing factors include air pollution, chytridiomycosis and introduced species . [ 3 ]