Figure 1.--This Rarámuri noy was photographed in the Sierra Tarahumara of northern Mexico, probably during the 1950s. The boy wears trafitional clothing and has his now and arrow. We think he lives on an ejido. He attended a Catholic Mission school. |
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The name of this tribe was the Rarámuri--meaning 'men of light feet'. They were renounded for their running abilities, in part acquired from living at relatively high alditudes. Trafitional running games with balls and hoops are still practiced. There is archaelological evidence that the Rarámuri have lived in Chihuahua and the upper Sierra for more than 10,000 years. The Spanish called them the Tarahumara. They originally inhabited a wide area of Chihuahua. To escape the depredations of the Spanish, especially slave raifing, the Rarámuri retreated into the Sierra Madre Occidental (16th century). The area is now called the Sierra Tarahumara Moutains (named after the tribe) of northern Mexico. This is part of the Sierra Madre. The Rarámuri are especially associated with the Copper Canyon area. Modern Rarámuri traditions are stronly influenced by the Catholic Christianity they learned from the Jesuits as part of missions life during the colonial life. The Jesuits expelled them (1776). They subsequently developed their own Christian traditions, mixing and weavig them with their own traditions.
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