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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.
Sierra Tarahumara or Tarahumara is the name for the region of the Sierra Madre beginning at the Durango border and extending north. This name comes from the Tarahumara natives. [ 6 ] This is a dramatic landscape of steep mountains formed by a high plateau that has been cut through with canyons including Copper Canyon , larger and, in places ...
The Tarahumara language (native name Rarámuri/Ralámuli ra'ícha "people language" [2]) is a Mexican Indigenous language of the Uto-Aztecan language family spoken by around 70,000 Tarahumara (Rarámuri/Ralámuli) people in the state of Chihuahua, according to a 2002 census conducted by the government of Mexico.
The Tarahumara salamander (Ambystoma rosaceum) is a freshwater species of mole salamander in the family Ambystomatidae, endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitats are temperate forest , subtropical or tropical moist montane forest , subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland , rivers , freshwater marshes , pastureland, and ponds .
Cassel, Jonathon F. Tarahumara Indians Naylor Co. 1969; Disappearance of the Tarahumara frog. In Our living resources 1994, National Status and Trends Report. National Biological Survey, Washington, D.C. Fayhee, John M. "Mexico's Copper Canyon Country: A Hiking and Backpacking Guide to Tarahumara-land", Cordillera Press, 1989, ISBN 0-917895-28-2
Alongside his research into the Tarahumara, McDougall delves into why the human species, unique among primates, has developed traits for endurance running. He promotes the endurance running hypothesis , arguing that humans left the forests and moved to the savannas by developing the ability to run long distances in order to literally run down ...
Chokecherries were also an important crop, mostly for the Blackfoot and Cheyenne tribes. [4] Many tribes used their knowledge of the natural world to hunt for meat both on land and in the sea. Fish, shellfish, and small grassland game animals were staples for hunter-gatherer tribes in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska such as the Salish and the ...
The Americas, Western Hemisphere Cultural regions of North American people at the time of contact Early Indigenous languages in the US. The classification of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas is based upon cultural regions, geography, and linguistics.