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    The Chumash are a Native American people of the central and southern coastal regions of California, in portions of what is now Kern, San Luis Obispo, Santa...
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  • Chumash in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chumash may refer to: Chumash (Judaism), a Hebrew word for the Pentateuch, used in Judaism Chumash people...
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    Chumash rock art is a genre of paintings on caves, mountains, cliffs, or other living rock surfaces, created by the Chumash people of Southern California...
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    that were spoken on the southern California coast by Native American Chumash people, from the Coastal plains and valleys of San Luis Obispo to Malibu, neighboring...
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    the Chumash-Barbareño tribe). This required religious conversion and integration into the Spanish colonial economy – for the local Chumash people, the...
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    Ojai (/ˈoʊhaɪ/ OH-hy; Chumash: ’Awhaỳ) is a city in Ventura County, California. Located in the Ojai Valley, it is northwest of Los Angeles and east of...
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  • Thumbnail for Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians
    The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians is a federally recognized tribe of Chumash, an indigenous people of California, in Santa Barbara. Their...
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    center of the Chumash universe, as well as a place of harmony and spiritual tranquility. The mountain is considered sacred to the Chumash people as it is an...
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    preserving a small sandstone cave adorned with rock art attributed to the Chumash people. Adjoining the small community of Painted Cave, the site is located...
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    The Chumash revolt of 1824 was an uprising of the Chumash Native Americans against the Spanish and Mexican presence in their ancestral lands. The rebellion...
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  • to approach them, they disappear. While sometimes attributed to the Chumash people who historically inhabited the central and southern coastal regions...
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    the period around 7,500 BP. The Chumash people lived in large villages or towns with up to 1,000 residents. Chumash villages typically contained houses...
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    Painted Rock (San Luis Obispo County, California) (category Rock art of the Chumash people)
    the Chumash people first populated the Carrizo Plain about 2000 BCE but mostly abandoned it, possibly due to drought, about CE 600. The Yokuts people common...
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    made by shepherds and hunters, and there are carvings made by the Chumash people depicting astronomical features. In 2021, a collaborative project to...
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    Chumash traditional medicine is a type of traditional medicine practiced by the Chumash people of the southern coastal regions of California. Chumash...
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    Americas before Colonization. One example of many is the Rock art of the Chumash people, part of the Native American history of California. In 2011, UNESCO's...
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    the Chumash people as Algsacpi and to the Spanish as the plain of Río Santa Rosa, one mile south of Lompoc. (During the mission period, the Chumash spoke...
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  • languages, a group of Native American languages previously spoken by the Chumash people along the coastal areas of Southern California from as far north as...
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    10,000–12,000 years. Archaeological research demonstrates that the Chumash people have deep roots in central and southern coastal regions of California...
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    Chumash archaeological site on a stabilized sand dune in Los Osos dating to at least as early as 1200 CE. The remains of two Northern Chumash people were...
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  • Thumbnail for Chumash Indian Museum
    Chumash Indian Museum is a Native American Interpretive Center in northeast Thousand Oaks, California. It is the site of a former Chumash village, known...
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    PMC 2987875. PMID 21054851. Timbrook, Janice (2007). Chumash Ethnobotany: Plant Knowledge among the Chumash People of Southern California. Santa Barbara Museum...
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    San Miguel Island (Chumash: Tuqan) is the westernmost of California's Channel Islands, located across the Santa Barbara Channel in the Pacific Ocean,...
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    Fernando Librado (category Chumash people)
    a Chumash elder, master tomol builder, craft specialist, and storyteller. He was born at Mission San Buenaventura in 1839 as the son of two Chumash parents...
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    Simi Valley (/ˈsiːmiː/ ; Chumash: Shimiyi) is a city in the valley of the same name in the southeast region of Ventura County, California, United States...
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    The first human residents of Conejo valley were the native Chumash people. Notable Chumash villages included Satwiwa ("The Bluffs") in Newbury Park, Sap'wi...
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    July 2021. Lompoc has been inhabited for thousands of years by the Chumash people, who called the area lumpo'o̥, meaning 'in the cheeks' in the local...
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    near the mountain, and the peak is considered a sacred mountain to the Chumash people. It is located in the Circle X Ranch Park, within the Santa Monica Mountains...
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    for the name Thousand Oaks during the September 29, 1964, election. Chumash people were the first to inhabit the area, settling there over 10,000 years...
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  • Chumash traditional narratives include myths, legends, tales, and oral histories preserved by the Chumash people of the northern and western Transverse...
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