Ancient Chumash Chiefs & Canoes of California 🌊

For over 10,000 years the Chumash have inhabited the Santa Barbara coast and channel islands. During that time, they thrived in a lush landscape, creating ocean worthy plank canoes, large towns, sophisticated societies and minting lots of money in the form of shell beads. In this episode, we'll explore ancient Chumash culture, it's development, how it survived colonization and how it's still going strong today.

*One small correction: I mentioned in the video that there is only one federally recognized Chumash tribe and while that is true, there are also Chumash that are part of the federally recognized Tejon Indian Tribe in Kern County, California.

Chapters:

Introduction: 0:00
Sources and Chronology: 3:16
Geography: 6:27
Chumash Origins: 9:17
Early and Middle Periods: 14:00
Tomols: 17:56
Transitional Period: 21:43
Chumash Society: 28:23
Chumash Towns: 39:16
Chumash Diet and Resources: 43:44
Contact and Conclusion: 48:01

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Sources and Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QqwgP39hi3YN1zT_J2mEGhnPNNCE4cr_dhDu1ySt76I/edit?usp=sharing