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Chumashan's spoke mithun. the Chumach tribes  all spoke different languishes. Acorn prominent in the Chumach diet.

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- Some of the Chumash houses were up to 50 feet across.

-  Canoes made by the Chumash were admired by Spanish explores.

- Chumash woman wore a double apron of deerskin, hanging from the waist to the knees, with the edges fringed and decorated with shells.

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The basic foods were acorns, deer meat, and salmon. Ducks, geese and swans were used as food and there eggs. Villages were located in the valleys.

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The people in North America were called indians because Christopher Columbus though he was in India so they were called the California Indians.By looking at bits and pieces left by them archeologist can figure out what it was like for the California Indians.The California Indians were hunters and gatherers and got their food from plants and wild animals.Some things they did were to hunt deer, collect acorns, and make baskets.Also when the first European explorers came here in the 1500 and 1600s there were more than 300,000 people in California.The name Native Indians was also used for the California Indians.

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some of he Native Americans were farmers and some relide on hevey fishing so like the Mojav tribe were farmers and the Tolowa.

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what the pomo ate depened on where they lived. The Sierra Miwok depended on deer as their main source of meat.

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from 1774 to 1832 treaties between individual sovereign american indian nations and the U.S.  were negotiated to establish borders and prescribe conditions of behavior of between the two parties. only one tribe spoke "macro-Algonquion". over 15 tribes spoke in "Aztec-tanoan". the chumash spoke in "chumashan". The "yuki" spoke in "macro-penutian". the "yuma" spoke in "hokan".

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the chumach eat acorns and corn they 90 diffrint languages the chumach traveld to get food.

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The Native americans had 90 languages and lived for thousand of years. Native americans lived over 11,000 years ago. The Native Americans lived in small groups. The name of the Native Americans has been used for 500 years because of a mistake. California Indians is the name most people like to call the Native Americans. Some people came from Asia and crossed the Bering Strait to Alaska down to North America.

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Food
The Chumash men would gather fish, deer , bear, birds, and other small animals like rabbit and salmon, eel, crawfish, and turtles. The women would gather nuts and berries such as; acorn, seeds, roots, bulbs, insects and much more.

Clothes

Their clothes most of the time were made from deerskin and bear fur were made for robes and raccoon skin  was made for blankets.

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there were sirton tribes that only hunted

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When the first Explores sailed along the California coast in the 1500s and the 1600s there were probably more tan 300,000 people in living in California.

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Food
The most important food was an acorn, witch the gathered from oak trees.The people who lived around the coast depended  on sea food.the amole ,or soap plant ,was the Chumash's favorite

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-The Chumash's most important food is the acorn.
- The Chumash would make canoes out of pine wood from trees by lakes, rivers, and (or) oceans.
-The Chumash Woman wore a double apron of deerskin

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The Chumash were a California launguage group comprised as sevrel tribes they were hunters and gathers. they ate acorns, deer ,nut and berry that grew in the area.

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The people living in North America in 1492 were called Indians because of Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer. He thought that he went to India so he called them American Indians. There are lines between to tribes to represent one tribes' territory. The people that lived in tribes had as many as 90 different languages.

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the name American Indians has been used for over 500 years though we know it is based on a mistake. As a result  the first people in California are often called California Indians.

the chumash were the first early California's .

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The Chumash were the first early Californians.

The name Wappo was given from later settlers. it was a term in Spanish guapo meaing brave, harsh or serve.

The Yana ate acorns because it was very important to them. roots, tubers and bulbs were gathered too.

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The Chumash traveled far from their home areas and could only understand the languages of nearby groups. When the first European explores sailed along the California coast in the 1,500's and 1,600's, there were more than 300,000 people living in California. The California Indians keep alive the traditions that make them a unique person.

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The Miwok tribe considered themselves to belong to tribelets which are small groups of villages.

Each tribelet was led by a headman. A headman gets to the position it is in from his father.

for the Miwok's money they used clamshell disks though they were less valuable to the Miwoks then it was to the neighbors to the north

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The Chumash lived on 3 of the channel islands. They ate fish and plants. They use clamshell discs for money. The yuma spoke in "hokan" They spoke about 100 languages The Miwok ate meat and their main source of meat was deer The miwok used The ceromonies were connected with religous practices

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The "Achomawi" indians spoke a language called "Palainihan" Some tribes lived on 3 of the channel islands and ate many different kinds of fish. The Achomawi tribe was called the "pit river indians" because they dug lots of pits for catching game. (or animals.) This tribe was enslaved because of the start of the California Gold Rush.

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over ten tribes spoke "Hoken".  The Chumash spoke  at least 6 languages.

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The "Yukians"  may be the oldest residents in California.The western "shoshoni" lived in about 200 villages and relied mostly on salmon fishing.The Northern Paiute had many conflicts with white man
and imposed their power on "washoe". The "Cahto"
devastated prior to the white infulix.

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there were at least six languages for the Chumash.The miwok had a headman who inherited the position from their father they settled arguments and were very wealthy.The Quechan and the Mohave didn't use sweathouses.

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The people living in North America in 1492 were called indians because Christopher Columbus , the Italian explorer who landed in island off the east coast of central America, mistakenly thought he was in india. They spoke in chumash .there tribe name in referred to there language name. Over ten tribes spoke hoken.

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There are signs that the first people came here more than 10,000 years ago. They may of come from the continent of, Asia crossing the Bering strait into what is now Alaska and then moving south down the north American Continent.

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The people who was living in north America in 1492 there were called indians because Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer who landed in the islands off the East Coast of Central mistakenly thought he had reached India. The name of Americans has been used for 500 years,though we knew it was based on a mistake. As the result the first people in California are often are called California indians. Sometimes the native of Americans is used. However, the California indians is the name now preferred by many.

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Many groups in early California referred to their own group by the word in their language that meant people. The people that lived in North America were called indians because of Christopher Columbus.

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The people in North America in 1492 were called indians because Christopher Columbus, the Italian explorer who landed in the islands off the East Coast of Central America, mistakenly thought he had Reached India. The ancestors of Hokan or possibly the Yukians may have been the first inhabitants of California. Spanish missions, Mexican feudal land barons, and especially the settlers and miners of the gold rush brought the genocide and disease