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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.
They became friends when Johnson was writing his PhD thesis on Chumash marriage and family patterns. [ 2 ] Ygnacio-De Soto was the illustrator of a children's book which tells one of her mother's cultural stories, The Sugar Bear Story (2005), published by Sunbelt Publications in conjunction with the Anthropology Department of the Santa Barbara ...
Rosario Cooper (1845–1917) [2] was a yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini (Northern Chumash) woman [3] who was the last known speaker of tiłhini (also known as Obispeño Chumash), [3] though she had rarely spoken or heard it since her early childhood. [2]
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.
Mary Joachina Yee (née Mary Joachina Ygnacio Rowe; 1897–1965) [2] [3] was a Barbareño Chumash linguist. She was the last first-language speaker of the Barbareño language, a member of the Chumashan languages that were once spoken in southern California by the Chumash people.
The Adamson House was constructed by Rindge daughter Rhoda Rindge Adamson & her husband Merritt Adamson in 1929. Adamson House and Malibu Lagoon Museum is located on Vaquero Hill, just east of the Malibu Lagoon, which had served for generations as a trash dump and burial ground for the native Chumash people. [14]
This category page lists notable citizens of the United States who have stated they have Chumash ancestry. For people with independently verified Chumash ancestry, see Category:American people of Chumash descent. For citizens of a Chumash tribe, see Category:Chumash people and its subcategories.
Kitsepawit, more commonly known as Fernando Librado [A] (c. August 20, 1839 – June 19, 1915), was 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 from the island of Lim