Kelli Dever Professor Arion Melidonis The Anthropology of Native Americans 3 June 2024 Chumash Culture The Chumash are a friendly Native American people, that have inhabited the area of central and southern California for approximately nine thousand years before Spanish and English settlers arrived. The term Chumash was originally the name that the mainland natives gave to the natives that inhabited the Channel Islands. In the late 1880’s, John W. P., from the Bureau of American Ethnology, named the collective of nations that inhabited the area of central and southern California the collective name ‘Chumash.’ At the height of their civilization in 1770, there were approximately twenty thousand Chumash people in the region of central and southern California (“Chumash,” 2012). But by 1920, the…show more content… If measures are not taken soon to restore their lands, they will not have the opportunity to thrive as they once did, and the culture could become extinct. The federal government must allocate all available resources toward relieving the plight of all the surviving Native Americans to save their cultural traditions, regardless of how much Native American blood they have in them. All of the survivors have a right to search for, and revive, the cultural heritage of their ancestors. Works Cited for Domingues, Carlie. “Sweet Water Life in Chumash: A Love Story.” News from Native California, vol. 37, no. 4 -. 1, Fall 2023, pp. 113-122. 6–7. The syllables of the syllables. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=171887845&site=ehost-live. Erlandson, Jon M. King, Chester. “The Making of Chumash Tradition.” Current Anthropology, vol. 39, no. 4. 4, Aug. 1998, pp. 113-117. 477–510. The. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.1086/204760. Haley, Brian D. Wilcoxon, Larry R. “Anthropology and the Making of the Chumash Tradition.” Current Anthropology, vol. 78, no. 1,
