4th grade indian project daniel

Daniel Chavez

Chumash

Harcourt2007 Orlando, Florida pg.70-71https://www.google.com/search

Work Cited

They lived along Pacific Ocean.They lived near the Cuyama Valley and

Transverse Mountain Region. Some lived on the Channel Islands.Also were surrounded by beaches,rivers,

mountains and Moro Rock.They also live by The Seven Valcanoes.

Where they lived

They fished and caught crabs.They collected mussles and abalone.They dug for clams.They also gathered acorns.Men hunted animals and also collected

plants.

Food they ate

They built their villages where they found fresh water.

They bent and tied willow branches into dome-shaped frames.Then they covered the frames with thick layers of tule.

Chumash house --)

Homes They lived in

Chumash is very good at trading.They were also expert canoe builders.

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What they are good at

Unlike other tribes Chumash had the resource tar.

Chumash used tar to make their boats and baskets waterproof.

Tar --)

Natural Resources they had

Chumash villages most of the time had a lot of houses, a storage house, a sweat lodge, and a public ceremony area.

Chumash village --)

What their villages were like

Chumash often told stories on how certain things were made in the world.

Chumash legend --)

What stories they told