The Tarahumara

Duration: 26

Year Published: 1983

Creator: Brigham Young University

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Profiles a little known, very unusual Indian nation--the Tarahumara--who live in the Sierra Madre mountains of southwestern Chihuahua, Mexico. Shows how they will run 500 miles in six days, rest for a day, and run the same 500 miles home again--explaining why they refer to themselves as "Raramuri" which means "footrunner."


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