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, 21 July 2023
• 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, 15 May 2021
• 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, 15 Feb. 2024
• 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, 5 Mar. 2023
• On weekends, Native American guides are available to discuss the Chumash culture and show visitors a replica of a Chumash home, a domelike structure called an ’ap.
  — Eric A. Taub, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• 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, 9 Oct. 2022
• The other is a Chumash tribal member who honed her skills at the first winery ever owned and operated by California Native Americans.
  — Melissa Mora Hidalgo, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
• 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, 10 Oct. 2022
• And along the state’s Central Coast, members of the Chumash tribe are frustrated that marine sanctuary boundaries proposed by the Biden administration would allow for offshore wind development.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• 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, 11 Nov. 2022
• However, European invasions sparking death and displacement led to a dramatic dwindling of the Chumash population.
  — Elise Preston, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2023
• 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, 29 July 2023
• 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, 11 June 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024