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...memorable chapter deals with the Tarahumara Indians of "the rugged southwestern corner of the state of Chihuahua, in the heart of the Sierra Madre Occidental." They are legendary long- distance runners--tall, lean, high-cheekboned men who play a nonstop kickball game over what may be two days and at distances of up to 100 miles. But when they cross the finish line, they more or less ignore the winner, acting as if nothing unusual had happened. Shoumatoff writes that the Tarahumara never accepted the Spanish culture and religion, but that lately their culture has been brutalized by narco-traficantes...
...including portraits of Robert Bork, Pat Robertson and Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Bush for TIME. The other William Coupon is endlessly fascinated with ethnic groups whose cultures are as far from the mainstream as they can be. He has traveled to record dramatic images of Norwegian Lapps, , Australian Aborigines, Tarahumara Indians in Mexico and members of a dozen other groups...
Anyone interested in the doings of the Lolo tribes-people, the Tarahumara Indians, or the Berbers, Bedouins and Bushmen knew just where to look. Likewise, those curious about "The Geographical Distribution of Insanity in the U.S." (1903) or "Pelican Profiles" (1943), or anyone "In Quest of the World's Largest Frog" (1967), had a handy reference guide. For most of its 102 years, National Geographic has been a colorful coffee-table companion for armchair explorers, roaming the world with rose-colored glasses and bringing back a cheery album of natives at play. But last week the abrupt firing of veteran...
...expensive imported European furnishings as it has been in the past," cabled Diederich. "Instead, each of the public rooms is a permanent exhibition of folk art and crafts from all of Mexico's 31 states and territories. It is a fitting setting, for these days bare-legged Tarahumara Indians from the Sierra Madre or huarache-wearing campesinos from the state of Sonora in the north are just as likely to be found with Mexico's chief executive as local and foreign notables." Excerpts from the interview...
Along dirt roads from Kansas City to Lawrence, Kan., a pair of sandals went clump-hua-clump-hua-clump-hua. . . . In the sandals were the red feet of Jose Torres of the Tarahumara tribe of Chihuahua, Mexico, who last week ran this 51 miles in 6 hr. 46 min. 41 sec. (a speed of about 8 m. p. h). In regulation track shoes, Purcell Kane, an Apache of Haskell Institute, finished second. Three other Indians also ran. Jose Torres, as everyone knows, recently covered 89.4 miles of concrete road in 14 hr. 53 min. (TIME, April...