The Chumash Tribe

Sequoia Nation - Long House of The Orange Skies

Monday, October 30, 2006

2006 IP Dance RSVPs

RSVPs for this years dance have been accepted for:
Jim H - 3
Mark W. - 2
Dan A. - 2
Jon S. - 3
Murray C. - 2
George D. -2
Rich W. - 2
Marty C. - 2
If anyone else wants tickets, let me know ASAP by tribal email. I am speaking with longhouse chief Richard Tuesday 10/31 to see if we have enough extra dads and daughters to schedule a second night's dance. Thanks!

Thursday, October 26, 2006

2006 Indian Princess Daddy Daughter Dance

Attention all Braves and Nations. The Star Nation tells us that the 2006 IP Daddy Daughter Dance is SOLD OUT. No more tickets are available. However, the great Sachem and Longhouse Chief Richard proposes that we schedule back-to-back dances over consecutive evenings, February 7-8, 2006 if we can quickly guarantee at least 100 additional dads.

I have had smoke signals from two Chumash dads of the Sequoia Nation. But that is not enough. We need 100 and I hear that no dad in the Sequoia Nation had an opportunity to purchase tickets. We must act now! Let me know if you want to go.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Kulda Images Discovered in Yucaipa Cave

Images estimated by archiologists to be at least two weeks old have been found in a cave in Yucaipa. Members of a tribe called The Chumash apparently left the images after staying in the area. Scientists hope to continue the search and find more images.

Isn't this perfection?


Good times. Good times.


Just chillin'


Proud punkin'


Look dad, no cavities!


I'm ready for my shot Mr. DeMille.










World's strongest Chumash

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Big Brave Dan Documents Yucaipa With Digital Petroglyphs

America's next Top Model


Breakfast at Tiffany's or breakfast in bed?


Campfire girls


No Fear Factor


Exchanging Bear Claws

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Chumash Chant - Yucaipa 2006 Koda Ceremony

CHUMASH TRIBAL CHANT
Shouted out to the tune of:
“Sponge Bob Square Pants”

CHIEF/DADS: ARE YOU READY GIRLS

PRINCESSES: AYE, AYE CHIEF

CHIEF/DADS: I CAN’T HEAR YOU!

PRINCESSES: AYE, AYE CHIEF

CHIEF/DADS: WHO LIVES IN A TEE PEE UNDER A TREE

PRINCESSES: CHUMASH TRIBE

CHIEF/DADS: WHO LOVES THEIR DAD, BUT MISSES MOMMY

PRINCESSES: CHUMASH TRIBE

CHIEF/DADS: IF INDIAN CAMPOUTS ARE SOMETHING YOU WISH

PRINCESES: CHUMASH TRIBE

CHIEF/DADS: THEN HUG YOUR DAD AND GIVE HIM A KISS

PRINCESSES: CHUMASH TRIBE, CHUMASH TRIBE, CHUMASH TRIBE

EVERYONE: CHUMASH!!!

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Indian Princess Aims

Motto: “Friends Always”

AIMS:
o To be clean in body and pure in heart
o To be pals forever with my father/daughter
o To love the sacred circle of my family
o To listen while others speak
o To love my neighbors as myself
o To seek and preserve the beauty of the great spirit's work in forest, field and stream

PLEDGE:

We, father and daughter, through friendly service to each other, to our family, to this tribe, to our community, seek a world pleasing to the eye of the great spirit.

About the Chumash Indians



The paintings (circa 1000 ad)

The Chumash, according to the explorers, made lavish use of color. They painted their faces and their bodies, their spears and bows and arrows. The women stained their buckskin skirts red. The planked canoes were painted red, and painted boards and poles marked their cemeteries and ceremonial enclosures. Of their color work, nothing remains but the mysterious rock paintings on cliffs and in caverns hidden from the sight of the Spanish in the remote and rugged mountains. Such painted rocks are called pictographs to distinguish them from petroglyphs, which are designs pecked, incised, or abraded in rock.

The Chumash neither thought as we do, nor did they interpret their ideas as we would. To them the supernatural was as real and as readily visual as the natural. It seems likely that most of the abstract paintings in the Chumash country are visualizations of supernatural beings or forces to be used ceremonially in much the same manner as the Navajo sand figures. Many of their pictures certainly represented things that existed only in the mind of the painter. Others were regional and stylistic formulas to represent objects, creatures, and phenomena known to the shamans of the area. In the western states, there are doubtless some rock pictures that record events, but this does not seem to be true of the southern California abstract pictographs.

Yucaipa Camp Out - October 13-15, 2006


Rain was predicted

But good times prevailed

Preparing for tribal judging

Wore little Princesses out

Singin' in the rain!

No need for Rogaine!

Exhausted Princesses