Santa Cruz Island
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Santa Cruz Island is located off the southwestern coast of Ventura, California, United States. It is the largest island in California and largest of the eight islands in the Channel Islands archipelag
Fernando Librado was born at Mission San Buenaventura in 1839 as the son of two parents from Chumash villages located on the island.
Scorpion Ranch, 2009
Potato Harbor
The north coast of Santa Cruz Island in August
Chumash people
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The Chumash are a Native American people of the central and southern coastal regions of California, in portions of what became Kern, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles counties,
Santa Cruz Island
…that Santa Cruz Island has been occupied for at least 10,000 years. It was known as Limuw (place of the sea) or Michumash in the Chumash language. The Chumash people who lived on the island developed a highly complex society dependent on marine harvest, craft specialization, and trade with the mainland population…
Pictographs, Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park
Chumash Family by American sculptor George S. Stuart
Chumash musicians at Mission San Buenaventura, 1873