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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 Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties, extending from Morro Bay in the north to Malibu in the south to Mt Pinos in the east.
It is the site of a former village of the Chumash people, and includes their burial sites. The archeological site has been designated as CA-Ven-110, and was listed with its location is not disclosed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1976. It received NRHP listing to protect its potential to yield archeological information in ...
The Burro Flats site is a painted cave site located near Burro Flats, in the Simi Hills of eastern Ventura County, California, United States.The Chumash-style "main panel" and the surrounding 25-acres were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, with a boundary decrease in 2020.
The history of Chumash people living along the Santa Barbara Channel area goes back millennia, at least eleven thousand according to archaeological data. They inhabited various spaces of the California Coast such as the mainland of the Santa Barbara Channel, the inner valleys, and even the islands between Malibu and San Luis Obispo.
Now, in the first partnership of its kind, the area will soon be part of a new national marine sanctuary that Native people will co-steward with a federal agency. It will give the Chumash people, once the largest cultural group in California, a say in the way the marine sanctuary is preserved.
Shalawa Meadow (also called Hammond's Meadow) is a 3-acre (0.012 km 2) seaside meadow in the community of Montecito, California. Used in ancient times as a burial site by the Chumash people and adjoining a formerly large Chumash community, it is about 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Santa Barbara.
Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park is a unit in the state park system of California, United States, 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 about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of California State Route 154 and 11 miles (18 km ...
Chumash Indian Museum is a Native American Interpretive Center in northeast Thousand Oaks, California. It is the site of a former Chumash village, known as Sap'wi (meaning "House of the Deer"). [1] It is located in Oakbrook Regional Park, a 432-acre park which is home to a replica of a Chumash village and thousand year-old Chumash pictographs ...