Chumash
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- proper noun
- /ˈtʃuːmæʃ/
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pueblo chumash
- Most likely, the islands' first inhabitants were ancestors of the Chumash, who later developed one of the world's most complex hunter-gatherer societies.
- Chumash people
- coastal Chumash
- Chumash of California
Examples
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More importantly, the Chumash survived several millennia of cyclical environmental variations under conditions of both high population and intricate sociopolitical structures.
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Archaeological data indicate that the Chumash people and their ancestors lived, thrived, and survived along the California coast for at least eleven thousand years.
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In California, the Chumash tribe has a legend.
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We dedicate this article to the Chumash people, past and present, who remained strong under the most difficult conditions.
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However, the Chumash were not equipped to handle the powerful colonial force exerted on them by the mission system.
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As expected, the responses of individual Chumash varied tremendously.
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In their heyday, the Chumash performed a fox dance, wearing headdresses made of fox pelts.
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Although natural resource fluctuations may have contributed to some of the difficult decisions faced by Chumash people around the turn of the nineteenth century, these are unlikely to have played a more important role than Spanish colonialism.
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To many members of modern Chumash and other California Indian communities, attempts by anthropologists to explain the movement of Chumash peoples to the Spanish missions as primarily a response to climatic variability are equally outrageous.
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We dedicate this article to the Chumash people, past and present, who remained strong under the most difficult conditions.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Chumash names a Native American people from the coasts of California, a word that entered English via Spanish and the local native languages. So Chumash refers to that particular group of people and their shared identity.