![]() The decision on the kind of hands for man came about when Snilemun (Sky Coyote) argued with Sun that man should have hands like his then it was decided. In the Chumash oral tradition, we have creation stories where the people of the upper world, Mishupashup, created man from a table made of marble and then, after it was decided what kind of hands man should have, he was placed in this world, Itiashup. Strait, a strip of land from Siberia to Alaska. ![]() Scholars theorize that the people migrated across a land bridge called the Bering Typical Chumash Village This places her as the oldest recorded human being on the North American Continent. These bones belong to one person, a woman who lived on Santa Rosa Island, one of the islands belonging to the group of islands known as the Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California. Recent studies on human remains that have been in the possession of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History have been dated 13,000 years ago. Theories claim that they may have arrived somewhere between 12,000 and 27,000 years ago. ![]() Anthropologists (scholars who study the remains of past societies) do not know for sure when the ancestors of the Chumash arrived in this area. My Chumash Ancestral Legacy by Julie Tumamait-Stenslie Julie TumamaitĪs a Chumash descendant, it is my belief, and that of many other Chumash people, that we have always been on this land.
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