Tarahumara
Americannoun
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Tarahumaras,
plural
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Tarahumara
plural
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a member of an Indigenous people of the Sierra Madre region of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico.
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the Uto-Aztecan language of the Tarahumara.
adjective
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Tarahumara
First recorded in 1870–75; of uncertain origin
Example Sentences
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Daniel E. Lieberman has studied the diets of indigenous cultures worldwide, from the Hadza, a hunter-gatherer people in Tanzania, to Maasai herders in Kenya and the Tarahumara Native Americans of northern Mexico.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The Society of Jesus, as the Jesuits are known, has a long history of defending Indigenous peoples, and longstanding ties to the Sierra Tarahumara.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
The incident occurred in the Tarahumara mountains of Chihuahua state, about 350 miles south of the Texas border.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2022
"Lorena Light-Footed Woman" follows Lorena Ramirez, a Mexican ultrarunner who lives in an indigenous community in the Tarahumara mountain range in Chihuahua, Mexico.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2020
The one sin of which a Tarahumara Indian is conscious is that of not having danced enough.
From From Ritual to Romance by Jessie Laidlay Weston
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