4th Grade Chumash Native American Video
U.S. History
4th Grade sharing the Chumash Native American lifestyle
The Chumash Indians are located along the Southern California coast. This area is in what is now Santa Barbara and Ventura counties. The Chumash arranged the houses in groups. Their houses are well constructed. They are round, the beds are made on frames. They hold they had wooden poles to support their houses. The poles were either leaned together or pounded into the ground.
Each village had a sweat house men used a ladder to climb down inside. The most important food for the Chumash was the acorn. They gathered acorns from the oak tree, the ocean was another important food source, fish, seals, shellfish, and sea otters were hunted. They hunted from canoes with harpoons. Chumash women wore a double apron of deer, skin hanging from the waist to the knees with the edges fringed and decorated with shelves men often wore nothing for cold weather clothes were woven from the skins of rabbits, bugs, or sea otters. The Chumash believe the world existed Above and below the walls they lived and they left behind rocks painting the may have been sacred spots. Too much love singing and dancing, they use flutes and rattles for instruments.