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2 unusual facts about Chumash


Chumash

Chumash Wilderness, wilderness area in the mountains of northern Ventura County and southwestern Kern County in California

Chumash people, a Native American people located off the coast of California


Acanthina spirata

This species is known to have been exploited by some Native Americans such as the Chumash of Central California approximately 1000 to 1200 AD.

Bezalel Rudinsky

The two written works of Rabbi Rudinsky are Mishkan Bezalel (Five volumes on the Chumash) and Hiluchai Hadaf (Collection of peshat and halachic aspects of the Talmud).

Coyotes in popular culture

The character appears in stranger guises in The Nagasaki Vector by L. Neil Smith, as a cyborg who specializes in scent tracking, and in Sky Coyote by Kage Baker, wherein the role of "Sky Coyote" is taken on by the cyborg Joseph in order to convince a Chumash community in California to evacuate in advance of European exploration.

Feldheim Publishers

The Feldheim library includes the complete works of Samson Raphael Hirsch, including his collected writings and commentaries on the Chumash, siddur, Haggadah of Pesach, and Tehillim.

Meir Zlotowitz

Zlotowitz and Scherman are the general editors of ArtScroll's Talmud, Chumash, Tanakh, Siddur, and Machzor series.

Millingstone Horizon

For example an extensive site at Morro Creek in the present day town of Morro Bay has yielded evidence of coastal Chumash in the Millingstone period.

Ostrea

At least one species within this genus, Ostrea lurida, has been recovered in archaeological excavations along the Central California coast of the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating it was a marine taxon exploited by the Native American Chumash people as a food source.

Ostrea lurida

This species has been recovered in archaeological excavations along the Central California coast of the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating it was a marine species exploited by the Native American Chumash people.

Qasil, California

Qasil may have been used as an important trading point and port for the neighboring Chumash people of Santa Cruz Island.

Rabbi Alexander S. Gross Hebrew Academy

Students complete daily coursework in conversational Hebrew, the study of Chumash, Talmud, and Judaic history.

Rómulo Pico Adobe

Located on Sepulveda Boulevard in Mission Hills, the original part of the Romulo Pico Adobe was built in 1834 by Tongva-Fernandeño, Tataviam-Fernandeño, and Chumash-Ventuaño Native Americans (Indians) from the San Fernando Mission.

Salinan

Sapir included it in a subfamily of Hokan, along with Chumash and Seri; this classification has found its way into more recent encyclopedias and presentations of language families, but serious supporting evidence has never been presented.


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