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WorksheetsTarahumara Culture
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
The Rarámuri or Tarahumara are a group of indigenous people of the Americas living in the state of ___________ in Mexico.
Chihuahua
Chiapas
Yucatan
Veracruz
Originally inhabitants of much of Chihuahua, the Rarámuri retreated to the high sierras and canyons such as the Copper Canyon in the Sierra Madre Occidental on the arrival of ___________ invaders in the 16th century.
Spanish
Aztec
British
Apache
The ________________ is a major mountain range system of the North American Cordillera, that runs northwest–southeast through northwestern and western Mexico, and along the Gulf of California.
Rocky Mountains
Sierra Madre Occidental
Appalachian Mountains
Sierra Madre del Sur
The Spanish name sierra madre means "mother mountains" in English, and occidental means "western", these thus being the "______________________".
South Mother Mountains
Eastern Mother Mountains
Western Mother Mountains
The Rarámuri language belongs to the __________ family. Although it is in decline under pressure from Spanish, it is still widely spoken.
Maya
Uto-Aztecan
Toltec
Apache
In the language, the term rarámuri refers specifically to the men, women are referred to as mukí (individually) and as omugí or igómale (collectively).
TRUE
FALSE
The __________ live in the southwestern part of the state of Chihuahua in Mexico. They shy away from contact with the outside world and remain for the most part isolated there to avoid further assimilation & colonialism.
Navajo
Yaqui
Tarahumaras
Seri people
Tarahumaras are legendary __________ and have been doing this for centuries. “Civilization" all but ignored them, partly because of their location.
long distance runners
cross country running
trail running
track and field athletes
María Lorena Ramírez Hernández (Guachochi, Chihuahua state, Mexico, 1995) is a Mexican fund runner and ultra-fund runner belonging to the _________ or Rarámuri ethnic group
Aztec
Tarahumara
Maya
Guarani
Lorena won, in 2017, the UltraTrail Cerro Rojo, an ultra-deep race of 50 kilometers, in a time of 07: 20.00 and for having also done it with ____________.
huaraches
tennis shoes
bare foot
The Rarámuri repulsed and were never conquered by the Spanish conquistadors or fully converted by the _______. When the Spanish arrived in the 1500s, they called this native people the "Tarahumara"
Franciscan missionaries
Catholic friars
Jesuit missionaries
The _______ religion is a mélange of indigenous customs and Roman Catholicism.
Mexican
Rarámuri
Apache
Yaqui
