GC3GNP2Mondo's NAT #148 Chumash
Type: Traditional
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By: mondou2@
| Hide Date: 04/09/2012
| Status: Available
Country: United States
| State: Colorado Coordinates: N39° 54.807 W104° 35.191 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Native American Tribes series.Chumash
A linguistic family who traditionally lived on the coast of south California, who were also known also as Santa Barbara Indians. There were seven dialects of the Chumashan family. All were fairly similar except the San Luis Obispo, which stood apart. Evidence was found, showing that they have had settlements on the Channel Islands and Santa Monica Mountains as far back as thousands of years ago. There were at one time over 20,000 Chumash living along the California coastline. The historic Chumash were a maritime culture, using long wooden canoes called tomols to fish and travel between different villages along the Pacific coast. They also hunted and gathered to provide for themselves.
They were first visited by Europeans as early as 1542, when Portuguese explorer, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo spent some time in their territory, meeting with an exceedingly friendly reception. More explorers followed and five missions were established by the Franciscans among the Chumash; those of San Luis Obispo, San Buenaventura, Santa Barbara, Purísima, and Santa Inez, from 1771 to 1804. The missionaries met with little opposition and no forcible resistance. However, some of the bands begin to resist missionary ruling and in 1824, the Indians at Santa Barbara, Santa Inez, and Purísima revolted against the mission authority, though there was no loss of life. Their grass houses were dome-shaped and often 50 feet or more in diameter and each was inhabited by several families.
Even during mission times the Chumash decreased greatly in numbers and continued to decrease as more and more white settlers moved into their lands. By 1900, their numbers had declined to just 200. However, several bands continue to exist today, though they have no reservation lands. Only the Samala, or Santa Ynez Chumash, have received federal recognition. However, there are an estimated 5,000 people who identify themselves as Chumash.
05/10/2019 By #1 Beefers Out on my own today, grabbing a few caches along the nice power trail. Nice day for caching too! Thank you for this placement mondou2.
12/22/2018 By EJBHGV Love the NAT series. Thanks for the info. TFTC
11/15/2018 By Yoda'sTreasure I am so happy I got to do some geocaching today. The good weather is holding up and its not to cold. Thank you for the fun hide. TNLN.
Its been a long hot summer in Texas, I've been trying to get out and do a caching trip a couple of times this summer, but it never worked out. Finally managed to get a week off, and am so happy to be out here in Colorado. The weather if perfect, and there is a load of caches that need my name on Thanks so much for the hide mondou2, I really enjoyed finiding this cache!
08/16/2018 By FeatheredFriends Still working on a county run. Today I had a few counties in south east Wyoming and across the border into Nebraska to pick up. Then I headed back to Denver for my flight back. I had extra time so I cached around the airport some more picking up a lot of Mondo caches. I signed the logs as FeatheredFriends or as "FF" on the smaller logs to save space. This was my '40th' find for today. Thanks 'mondou2' for a fun time in the area. .
08/09/2018 By Izzifix Before I have to go back to Switzerland, FWIA and Harvestmoon2 decided to get some caches around the Denver Airport area. Always a lot of fun on our trips!
Thanks to all the CO’s for placing the caches. Best regards, Izzifix
08/09/2018 By HarvestMoon2 TFTC! Had to bring my cousins, FWIA and Izzifix up to Denver as they leave for home soon. What does one do on an overnight trip? Need I say more? SL HM2
08/09/2018 By FWIA Ah yes, back in beautiful Colorado with Izzifix & Harvestmoon2 for family time and caching. A couple days left until I head back to Iowa and Izzifix goes back to Switzerland.
Thanks to all the CO’s for placing the caches we enjoyed hunting.
07/14/2018 By Sqweeter Moving right along with the NATs. All is well with this cache. TFTH SL
Mondo's NAT #148 Chumash
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Thanks so much for the hide mondou2, I really enjoyed finiding this cache!