22 Facts About Chumash people

Archaeological research demonstrates that the Chumash people have deep roots in the Santa Barbara Channel area and lived along the southern California coast for millennia.

The name Chumash means "bead maker" or "seashell people" being that they originated near the Santa Barbara coast.

The scorpion tree was significant to the Chumash people as shown in its arborglyph: a carving depicting a six-legged creature with a headdress including a crown and two spheres.

Chumash people resided between the Santa Ynez Mountains and the California coasts where a bounty of resources could be found.

Mild temperatures, save for winter, made gathering easy; during the cold months, the Chumash people harvested what they could and supplemented their diets with stored foods.

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Chumash people'sllfish were a good source of nutrition: relatively easy to find and abundant.

Chumash people'sllfish grew in abundance during winter to early spring; their proximity to shore made collection easier.

Interior Chumash people placed greater value on the deer, to the extent that they had unique hunting practices for them.

Chumash people moved from their villages to the Franciscan missions between 1772 and 1817.

Mission San Luis Obispo, established in 1772, was the first mission in Chumash people-speaking lands, as well as the northernmost of the five missions ever constructed in those lands.

TribesChumash people either fled into the interior, attempted farming for themselves and were driven off the land, or were enslaved by the new administrators.

The Chumash people population was between roughly 10, 000 and 18, 000 in the late 18th century.

Today, the Chumash people are estimated to have a population of 5, 000 members.

Santa Ynez Band of Chumash people is a federally recognized Chumash people tribe.

Chumash people are enrolled in the Tejon Indian Tribe of California.

Chumash people worldview is centered on the belief "that considers all things to be, in varying measure, alive, intelligent, dangerous, and sacred.

One Chumash band, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez Reservation is a federally recognized tribe, and other Chumash people are enrolled in the federally-recognized Tejon Indian Tribe of California.

The Chumash people appear to have been thriving in the late 18th century, when Spaniards first began actively colonizing the California coast.

Whether the deaths began earlier with the contacts with ships' crews or later with the construction of several Spanish missions at Ventura, Santa Barbara, Lompoc, Santa Ynez, and San Luis Obispo, the Chumash people were eventually devastated by the California Genocide carried out when the United States took over the territory.

Chumash people were hunter-gatherers and were adept at fishing at the time of Spanish colonization.

Foods historically consumed by the Chumash people include several marine species, such as black abalone, the Pacific littleneck clam, red abalone, the bent-nosed clam, ostrea lurida oysters, angular unicorn snails, and the butternut clam.

Chumash people formerly practiced an initiation rite involving the use of sacred datura.