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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.
Maria Solares (US: / ˈ m ɑː r i ə s oʊ ˈ l ɑː r ɛ s /, Spanish: Maria Solares; born Qilikutayiwit, also known as Maria Ysidora del Refugio, c. April 1842 – March 1923) was a Native Californian woman belonging to the Chumash people, notable for her association with documenting and preserving the Samala Chumash language and culture.
Though Spanish introduction of Catholicism across California interrupted some native beliefs, Cooper said that the Chumash believed in the sun, moon, stars, Bear, and Coyote. [6] [7] Cooper also had recollections of older Chumash women offering sacrifices off the coast to marine animals such as dolphins [6] and swordfish. [7]
For more than 10,000 years, Native Americans have been living along California’s central coast, an area of breathtaking beauty with stunning turquoise waters rich in biodiversity. 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.
Ygnacio-De Soto was born circa 1938 in Santa Cruz, California. [1] She is the daughter of Mary Yee (1897–1965), who was the last first language speaker of the Chumashan language, Barbareño. [3] She grew up listening to native speakers of the language and therefore serves as a direct living link to that extinct language family. [4]
Sarah Biscarra-Dilley (born 1986) [1] is a Native American interdisciplinary artist, curator, and writer from the Northern Chumash Tribe. [2] Much of Biscarra-Dilley's work brings focus to sexuality and gender identity, as well as racial and cultural marginalization. [3]
A racist term for a Native American woman will be removed from nearly three dozen geographic features and place names on California lands, the state Natural Resources Agency announced Friday ...
Obispeño, Northern Chumash; Purisimeño; Ventureño; Chilula, northwestern California [1] Chimariko, extinct, northwestern California [2] Coso, southeastern California; Cupeño, southern California [1] Eel River Athapaskan peoples. Lassik, northwestern California [1] Mattole, Bear River, northwestern California [1] Nongatl, northwestern ...