The tomol plank-canoe people of the Santa Barbara Channel — among the densest populations north of Mexico.
The Santa Ynez Band endures; the 2024 Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary — the first tribally nominated — honors their sea.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Chumash — the shape you scrub through changes in 700 · 1769 · 1846.
On Chumash society, the tomol canoe, and their dense Channel populations at contact.
The foundational ethnographic survey of California peoples including the Chumash (broad reference).
Authoritative era-sweeping study of California Indigenous ecological knowledge and land management, essential context for the Chumash maritime and terrestrial world before and after contact.