How to Use Chumash in a Sentence

Chumash

noun
  • There was a large Chumash village to the south of Cayucos at Morro Creek.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 2023-07-21
  • The Chumash were the indigenous people of the region—Malibu was from a Chumash word—but there were few tribe members left, and their language was lost.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 2021-05-15
  • This past October, members of the Chumash tribe performed a cultural burn on part of the grassland, and the site draws birders and kids on bikes, who use its pathways to get to school.
    — Cara Buckley, New York Times, 2024-02-15
  • In that painting, Preciado is seated in one of his Chumash chairs, a nod to his mother’s Indigenous ancestry.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 2024-09-03
  • These include over 140 species traditionally used by the Chumash, such as tule grass for matting and thatching houses, and elderberries for crafting whistles and bows.
    — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 2024-06-11
  • The extraordinary compound has seen centuries of transformation, from Chumash villages to a bustling cattle ranch, a haven for champion racehorses, and even the world’s largest orchid farm.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 2025-03-20
  • The Chumash people collected tar balls that would naturally seep from the ground and use them for caulking of ocean crafts, making drinking vessels, creating casts for broken bones, and waterproofing of baskets.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 2022-10-10
  • As such, the production process included asking tribal elders from the Chumash and Cowlitz tribes for permission and blessings to base the Skycedar family on their communities.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2022-10-09
  • Hard Science California cave art linked to early use of hallucinogens The Chumash people poked bits of psychoactive plants into cave ceilings next to their paintings.
    — Big Think, 2024-06-24
  • They later were identified as the partial remains of six ancestors of the Santa Ynez Chumash that were supposed to have been repatriated in 2018.
    — Graham Lee Brewer, NBC News, 2023-03-05
  • However, European invasions sparking death and displacement led to a dramatic dwindling of the Chumash population.
    — Elise Preston, CBS News, 2023-11-11
  • The site offers hands-on activities so participants can experience a typical day in a Chumash village, demonstrating how houses were built, clothes were made and food was prepared using the available natural resources.
    — Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 2022-11-11
  • Indigenous people, including the Tongva and Chumash, practiced managed burning for millennia prior to colonization.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 2025-01-22
  • And the Northern Chumash awarded their first environmental student scholarship to a tribal member who is working on revitalizing the language, using Smithsonian archives to make Chumash languages more accessible.
    — Silvia Foster-Frau, Washington Post, 2023-07-29

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