Chumash

The Chumash are Amerindian people which lived mainly along the southern part of the California, around the current cities of Santa Barbara and Ventura. It occupied also the three islands of the north of the Chanel Islands. The current places which have origins chumash are: Malibu, Not Mugu, Piru, Lake Castaic and Simi Valley.

In Santa Ynez Mountains, to 13 km in the North-West of Santa Barbara, some caves are whose walls are decorated with pictograms and drawings of the Chumash Indians. To paint these drawings, of which some seem to represent scorpions, snakes and lizards, the tribes exchanged pigments. Perhaps part of these figures has a religious direction and symbolic system.

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Santa Ynez Band off Chumash Indians
Manual of the language Inezeño Chumash
Chumash Casino
The Antelope Valley Indian Museum with the California Department off Parks and Re-creation.
Semu Huaute, Medicineman off Chumash Indians

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