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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.
The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians is a federally recognized tribe of Chumash, an Indigenous people of California, in Santa Barbara. [2] Their name for themselves is Samala. [3] The locality of Santa Ynez is referred to as ’alaxulapu in Chumashan language. [4] [5]
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 ...
Jalama was once the site of a Chumash People settlement named "Halama," "Jalam," "Xalam," or "Shilimaqstush." [2] [1] [3] [4] With the arrival of Spanish missionaries and the establishment of the La Purisima Mission in 1787, the inhabitants were relocated to the mission and the settlement was reportedly abandoned. [5] [4]
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.
The turbine proposal has sparked outrage among conservationists and members of the Northern Chumash Tribe, who say the sanctuary is intended to preserve Chumash tribal history and protect the area ...
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.
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 ...