Tarahumara - Missions in Mexico

After the Spanish conquest of the 1500s, the Tarahumara scattered throughout the Sierra Madre mountains of Northern Mexico. Today, their beautiful culture continues to thrive. However, animistic tribal traditions can often create in them a sense of fear.
This is why missionaries have gone to them, to present the peace of Jesus. Through a process of learning the Tarahumara language and cultural traditions, the missionaries have come to know and love these people.
The Tarahumara have a lack of adequate healthcare and limited food resources, so a Pioneers team composed of Mexican nationals, Germans and Americans serve the Tarahumara with free healthcare and literacy, hoping also to see an indigenous church emerge.
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[@joserodolforamirez8773]

These are my people on my father's side this is beautiful thank you for loving them!

[@MomoKunDaYo]

Same here. I look kind of asian because of it lol

[@johnconner9400]

The white peoples r definitely not loving them that’s for sure

[@mixtecjaguar9824]

@@johnconner9400 And how have Hispanics/MESTIZOS treated Native people in Mexico? Why don't you speak up for the Tarahumaras? Look at how MESTIZOs/Hispanics treat them?

[@lionofjudahlambofgod9132]

@@johnconner9400 Are you?

[@frankytrevor7]

@@mixtecjaguar9824 🤣🤣🤣Typical protestants liars and evil ones ! You aren't helping them but exploding them! They are devote Catholics that love their Religion. Leave them alone they can make it better than you without your "help"

[@mariaj4239]

I found this video while searching for ancestral roots and instead found a group of individuals who are pressing their ways onto a community that didn’t ask for it. What makes you the ones who know best for them? They have done just fine.

[@pioneersusa]

We believe that the Tarahumara people are just as capable of making decisions about what they want to believe as anyone else. We have no interest in coercing or forcing anyone to believe or do anything. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

[@delancey3181]

Firstly ancestral roots where you look mostly white like 50 to 80 percent you might be native but not a lot. And the real god is the existing one from the Bible. “I am the beginning and end”

[@adrianacevedo8727]

Easy to quote, "honor thy neighbor"

[@lionofjudahlambofgod9132]

My step Dads mom was a quarter Tarahumara and she loved Jesus.

[@MegaChoo2]

Do the Tarahumara need us to proselytize them...or is it the other way around? Maybe the Rarámuri should teach us.

[@amisg3007]

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

[@DeadlyMaskwa]

I am Raramuri, I spoke only Tarahumara until I was 4. And then Spanish. Now as an adult, English and Japanese were added. We don’t like the white saviors. They call us malnourished because we aren’t fat Americans. They say things as if our people cannot raise our children for a reason. They “rescue” by taking us away and recreating the Spanish/Catholic wave of erasing us. You’re more right than you know. I think you see them for what they are too.

[@jeremymolt148]

Exactly. Looks to me like they still live in balance with nature. Not something Christians can claim

[@Neni923]

Why was mestizo translated as “white man”?? Mestizos are mixed native and European, they’re not “white”. They’re mixed. The vast majority of Mexicans are mestizo.

[@mixtecjaguar9824]

They asked Tarahumaras: how do you feel about MESTIZOs? Ask a MESTIZO: how do you feel about gringos?

[@HeyAlexMCYT]

Mestizos technically count as white

[@xsol3748]

@@HeyAlexMCYT No we aren’t. We count as white in papers because we don’t have a specific race but we are far from it.

[@TheCeJor]

I was wondering the same thing. And no mestizos don’t count as white, just how folks who are half black don’t count as “white”

[@elizabethparker1441]

@@HeyAlexMCYT No they do not!

[@johnconner9400]

You’re not working with them you’re exploiting them and at the same time trying to destroy them

[@user-vx2fw7qe1n]

We Tarahumaras are the runners, able to kick ass with my legs, love my blood, as a Mexican, I am so damn happy I ended up with this tribe, como un mestizo Tarahumara, estoy orgulloso que soy de este grupo de indígenas , VAMOS A CORRER GENTE

[@mixtecjaguar9824]

SI Eres Tarahumara, hay que hablar por El Pueblo Tarahumara! Los MESTIZOs los an marginado, los an burlado, discriminado. Los Tarahumaras tienen razon, los MESTIZOs se han comportado como El chamuco/Lucifer.. .jajaja

[@Luvleerita56]

I'm also Tarahurama, I didn't inherit that running gene 😄

[@khumbomunsaka716]

Thank you for this work. Keep going.

[@mndyD9]

These are my people on my paternal great grandfather’s side and he spoke of a white man that spoke English and gave bibles out to them… seeing things like this it gives me mixed feelings about whether this is really helping or adding to our culture and language dying.

[@pioneersusa]

Thanks for sharing, Mandy. We understand that the history of missions has been complicated and problematic at times. Our hope with the Tarahumara (and all people for that matter) is to simply offer them the opportunity to learn about Jesus, while helping them in practical ways (with medical help and education in this specific context). We want to see their culture, their language and their people thrive! Thanks for your helpful comment.

[@frankytrevor7]

🤣🤣🤣Typical protestants liars and evil ones ! You aren't helping them but exploding them! They are devote Catholics that love their Religion. Leave them alone they can make it better than you without your "help"

[@frankytrevor7]

@@pioneersusa 🤣🤣🤣Typical protestants liars and evil ones ! You aren't helping them but exploding them! They are devote Catholics that love their Religion. Leave them alone they can make it better than you without your "help"

[@9344music5]

I am Tarahumara. We left our tribe a couple generations ago. We don't reach out as we should. I want to give back

[@delancey3181]

Mestizo does not mean white man it means a mix of native and white

[@mixtecjaguar9824]

Yeah, but MESTIZOS in Latin America preserve Hispanic language, religion, politics, socio-economic identity identical to Europeans...not Native, like the Tarahumaras.

[@aliceong8908]

Breaks my heart to see my Tribal Nation continuously colonized. When he said they have to “ tear down the foundation and build something new in Gods image “ or whatever he’s literally talking about erasing our culture and creating a new one in “God”. And just so you know we aren’t afraid of everything we exist and live with everything. We are a free people. The ways we live are our culture. And if we’re so “malnourished “ how come doctors come to study out diets and the way we run and our strength? You can help without shoving your religion down our throats. We don’t want to talk or trust y’all because you always show up with your religion just like the Spanish during colonial times. You never listen. You all just have huge Savior complex. No one asked you to show up.

[@xXCoDMoDzXxx]

👏

[@mixtecjaguar9824]

How have the MESTIZOS/Hispanics treated Native people in Mexico/Latin America? Look at the Mayas (Zapatistas) in Chapas, still fighting colonization.

[@chenydeniz3594]

Stop colonialism that's not helping!!!

[@mixtecjaguar9824]

@@chenydeniz3594 please share. What is colonialism here?

[@joses2167]

Well said Alice Ong

[@joseh7612]

Mestizo means mixed race person (Spanish and Indigenous Mexican), not white man.

[@joseh7612]

Also it’s not fair to call mestizos, the devils creation. Wtf those are real, normal people too.

[@mixtecjaguar9824]

@@joseh7612 they are asking Tarahumaras, not the Mestizos/Hispanics. Mestizos believe they have the right to speak for Native people.

[@chenydeniz3594]

Ya no nesesitamos biblical ya no colonizar!! Respetar su cultura y aprender de ellos, ya basta con su invasion

[@DanielRodriguez-cv3xb]

iam a tarahumara indian iam 40 percent indigenous of northern mexico and iam proud of it i make a ancestry dna test

[@HeyAlexMCYT]

Mexico is in North America

[@pioneersusa]

Good call! Thanks for the comment. We will get that updated.

[@frankytrevor7]

@@pioneersusa 🤣🤣🤣Typical protestants liars and evil ones ! You aren't helping them but exploding them! They are devote Catholics that love their Religion. Leave them alone they can make it better than you without your "help"

[@tyleranderson2077]

You can offer help to them without involving religion. This is killing their culture.

[@pioneersusa]

Thanks for watching. Curious to hear more about your thoughts. How is it that involving religion kills a culture if they are not being forced into anything? Aren't they just as capable as anyone to make their own decisions?

[@WattsTowers131]

@@pioneersusa As a descendent of Raramuri ! I would like to ask you what makes you think my people don’t have the concept of God! And needs your guidance. I appreciate your help but don’t try to shove your religious beliefs on them. We have love for Mother Earth nature and animals . We take care of the planet 🌎 we believe in family and so far have survived indigenous genocide caused by the Spanish missionaries and conquistadors. So in my eyes you are no better then them by trying to indoctrinate them to your religion. Accept our way of life or go somewhere else

[@pioneersusa]

@@WattsTowers131 Thanks for your comment. We love it when people are open to discussion! We have no desire to shove our religious beliefs on anyone. We believe that everyone should be free to choose what they believe. We are there to show them the love of Jesus in practical ways and to share about him when it is fitting. That's it. Do you see a problem with them listening to different viewpoints and choosing their own way? Aren't they free to choose what they believe?

[@WattsTowers131]

@@pioneersusa You know you sound just like a white 👨, same mentality trying to force your way of life and not accepting our indigenous way of being. You will never get it cause you aren’t one of us. I just hope that my people continue to survive grow and prosper in their land.

[@TheToloachito]

@@pioneersusa ....thanks for helping the Raramuris with medical and a righteous concept of God. My Great-grandfather on my mother side was a full blooded Raramuri.

[@RB-je3yj]

It's a myth you don't need Nike shoes to be a good runner!!!

[@felixrivas4684]

Grasias.q.dios.les.bendiga

[@frankytrevor7]

🤣🤣🤣Typical protestants liars and evil ones ! You aren't helping them but exploding them! They are devote Catholics that love their Religion. Leave them alone they can make it better than you without your "help"

[@kiwicory100]

Do the women run as well?

[@cesargonzalo9748]

Ellas son las mejores , corren en ultramaratones a nivel internacional puede correr hasta 100 millas sin parar

[@conniewebster1498]

Y women run as well and recognized worldwide for running 100km one such 🏃 runner is Lorena Ramirez

[@user-vx2fw7qe1n]

we all run

[@mixtecjaguar9824]

Like a gazel...

[@conniewebster1498]

Y yes there is a family 3 of the girls are kilometer runners Lorena, Juana and her brother and Father ❤️❤️❤️❤️🎉 salute to these fine resilient people.😊🇲🇽🎉

[@phatphish7617]

Religious /Christian people showing up to help the indigenous, ya that's always ended well for the indigenous.

[@pioneersusa]

It certainly hasn't ended well in the past, and we NEVER want to repeat those mistakes. We will always put loving people first.

[@johnconner9400]

Show the Native people talking not the white people

[@pioneersusa]

We believe that all people are made in the image of God and are equally valuable, no matter what their skin color. Perhaps you didn't get through the whole video, but you do hear the voice of someone from the Tarahumara narrating at the start. And then throughout, a multi-cultural team is represented, featuring people from hispanic, American and European backgrounds. We love it when different cultures come together!

[@johnconner9400]

@@pioneersusa If you believe all people are made in the image of God why is it illegal to be a native Indian in America why is it illegal to practice the culture of the indigenous peoples in the Americas at this time as we’re living On stolen land your still Treating Black people as if they’re less than human in America’s How can the colonist explain the indigenous life why don’t you interview an indigenous Respectively with their permission We are still getting racially profiled in our own stolen land that was stolen from us by white supremacist and all the Americas how are we all considered created cording to youOnly when it’s convenient for you right

[@frankytrevor7]

@@pioneersusa 🤣🤣🤣Typical protestants liars and evil ones ! You aren't helping them but exploding them! They are devote Catholics that love their Religion. Leave them alone they can make it better than you without your "help"

[@ianschubert5638]

STOP INDOCTRINATING THEM WITH RELIGION THAT ISNT THEIRS. STOP STOP STOP STOP PLEASE

[@patriciatorres190]

Exactly!!!!!

[@bredockschannel7331]

You obviously don't know how hard they have it, the government doesn't help them. What is wrong with helping people that are less furtunate? Now about indoctrination, they are free to believe what they want. Do you know the other side of the coin if these people didn't help them? I doubt it... They turn to a life of crime, out of necessity many have wandered into the cartels and become criminals. Which is the lesser evil?

[@ianschubert5638]

@@bredockschannel7331 there are so many assumptions going on here. First off, you can help people without shoving beliefs down their throat. These people have traditions that are dying everyday, and forcing westernized religion on them is a huge reason for that. Yes it’s good that they’re getting help, but using religion as a medium to teach these people is doing more harm to their community and traditions than good. Secondly, assuming that just bc cartels help them they would turn to a life of crime seems a bit stereotypical and racialized to me. Just bc cartels help their communities, does not mean that the people they help are going to turn to a life of crime. History his shown how native traditions can vanish by westernized “help”.

[@bredockschannel7331]

@@ianschubert5638 not assumptions, I have seen first hand. Why aren't you helping them then?

[@bredockschannel7331]

@@ianschubert5638 the cartels don't help them, they use them! Wish you even knew wtf you're talking about, piss off about you're racialized feelings... killing people over power and drug money has shit to do with race, every person who gets deep enough in that kills for money. Again, why don't atheists like yourself go help them?

[@ErickMaciasJuarez]

Quit colonizing them. Start learning from them. Otherwise their culture can't be preserved.

[@bredockschannel7331]

They are learning from them. Its right there in the video

[@mejhon6592]

El diablo creo al meztizo. Que paso ehh

[@manuelporrasrodriguez8748]

Quema mucho el sol

[@tuyenhapham]

Please don’t touch their life.

[@american236]

I feel the same, but nothing wrong with teaching them about Jesus Christ.

[@american236]

I don’t mind you teaching them about Jesus Christ. Just please do not strip their self reliance away from them.

[@pioneersusa]

Can you explain this more? In what ways are you seeing their self reliance being stripped away?

[@jimhelton2253]

Mestizo does not translate to “white man”.

[@DanielRodriguez-cv3xb]

Eso no es cierto El Diablo no creo Al mestizo dios creo Al mestizo dios es El creador de la Tierra y El universo no El Diablo

[@manuelporrasrodriguez8748]

Puedes respetar sus tradiciones

[@DanielRodriguez-cv3xb]

@@manuelporrasrodriguez8748 no porque lo que dicen no es cierto si no me crees preguntale a dios

[@DanielRodriguez-cv3xb]

@@manuelporrasrodriguez8748 preguntale a dios

[@manuelporrasrodriguez8748]

Son fábulas no te preocupes

[@diogenis210]

че вы лезете к ним со своим богом ?

[@franklopez2969]

Get the Saviors out of there! They are helping in return for conversions!

[@jorgeGonzalez-sk1zy]

Les estan vienen a Enseñar otras personal pero con la misma religion que busco destruirlos y someterlos cigars antes

[@sebastianborunda2653]

Jajajajaja si es cierto

[@Anthony-cz6lr]

Wow, how absolutely horrific of you all to even maintain a presence in the region. Like many of these other comments, I was trying to learn more about my Tarahumara ancestors, and instead I find a video of foreign missionaries attempting to convert indigenous people in another country. I am shocked, and I hope that one day Mexico works to ban this. Until then, you all should be ashamed of yourselves. You will spin a response in any way to free yourselves of any blame, and I do not care. If you had any shred of decency, you would recognize the history of these lands and leave these people alone. But you won't. Also, as others pointed out, what a curious translation that was made in the beginning of this video - we all know that "mestizo" is not a white man. Why try to spin it that way?

[@Elchino0303]

I hate that Christians take advantage of peoples situation and push their beliefs on them !….let them pray to their gods and learn their religion and still help them ..but y’all can’t ..only reason they sit and pray and open your bibles is because of the need of water food medical attention that y’all provide

[@rolandfor]

Keep Jesus out!!!! No religion no gobierno!!!!

[@besswall]

Thank you for reaching them that they would come to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Since He died for them, too, they need to be reached. It is the lost who don't understand this and want the pagan culture to continue but that way is the way of eternal death. For those who are in a huff about reaching the Tarahumara/Rarámuri for Jesus, if they don't want to change they won't, just like some of you who don't want Jesus, you won't change. BUT, those who want salvation from an eternal hell, just like me and many others, need to have it made available.

[@anthonyproffitt5341]

Quit smoking crack and cursing people that don’t except your false god. These people lived for thousands of years before Europeans came and desecrated their land. This is so unfortunate that Christians seek poor people to indoctrinate them. If God was who you think he is, he wouldn’t need a bunch of peasants to spread the word.

[@geodavras]

Leave them alone.