The Chumash Tribe

2009 Chumash Fall Campout in Yucaipa Pictures

2009-10-16T09:46:00.000-07:00

John Cox setup a really nice website that contains some amazing photos of the campout, including some great action shots of the balloon toss and other games.

Chumash 2009 Fall Campout Pictures Click Here

NOO 2 DA NIZZAY!!

Spring Campout May 29-31

2009-05-18T09:11:00.001-07:00

See everyone there...NOONAY

Chief Brown Bear

The Chumash Camp at Yucaipa - October 12 - 14, 2007

2007-10-22T21:54:00.000-07:00

Thanks for the memories !

Origins of the campfire girls?

Somebody warned us Keith was a colorful character!

Fiercest Chumash

Good times!

Good times!

Medicine Man Dan prepares the tribe for judging, and the chiefs for Chumash Chips

Emma gets her wish !

The games begin!

Mike lays it all on the line for the Chumash!

I hope mom isn't watching!

Lauren and dad Steve exchange bear claws.

Mike, Lexie, Keith, Juliette, Bernie and Cara at the Bear Claw Ceremony

Bernie and Cara by the bear claw bonfire

United we stand!

My favorite Chumash (untill she gets tied and cranky!)

Small band of Chumash sighted

2007-09-23T08:32:00.000-07:00

A small band of Chumash was sighted late Fridayevening headed for the Newport Dunes. Scouts of the 2nd Calvary reported the sighting upon return to Fort Sequoia early Saturday Morrning. No Chumash were reported near the Y in the MCA river Saturday for beautification day. The Chumash are a fearsome tribe of fun loving friends, who scouts report, will gather again soon, to plan Yucaipa Campout duties and to make tribal property face masks in Chumash colors and feathers at the teepee of the the Chief Sunday afternoon, September 30 from 2:30 to 5 PM.

DON'T FORGET TO ACCEPT YOUR INVITATION TO THE CHUMASHWEBSITE!!!

Purpopse of the meeting:

1)Get the girls together

2)Meet new tribal members

3)Organize Yucaipa plans for October 12-14

4)Choose hunter/gatherers for food acquisition

5)Give new members instructions on getting vests and patches

6)Practice AIMS, GOALS, CHUMASH CHANT, etc.

7)Pass the talking stick.

8)Have girls create tribal property. I am obtaining face-mask blanks. Each girl will make their own CHUMASH MASK for tribal display at the campout. Masks, feathers, paints, beads provided for a three dollar donation at the door.

9)Finalize tribal responsibilities. Dan is Medicine Man (aka Medicine Man Dan). Rich has stepped up to the plate again as Tribal Scout - already securing our winter campground. (We need to settle up with Rich - he's already ponied up a deposit to secure ourreservations). We also need to select someone to oversee tribal wampum duties so I don't have to. And we still need a sandpainter.Any questions, give the Chief a call!

10) Pass out tribal roster and contact information.

2006 IP Dance RSVPs

2006-10-30T13:57:00.000-08:00

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!

2006 Indian Princess Daddy Daughter Dance

2006-10-26T23:22:00.000-07:00

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.

Kulda Images Discovered in Yucaipa Cave

2006-10-25T09:09:00.000-07:00

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

Big Brave Dan Documents Yucaipa With Digital Petroglyphs

2006-10-19T20:04:00.000-07:00

America's next Top Model

Breakfast at Tiffany's or breakfast in bed?

Campfire girls

No Fear Factor

Exchanging Bear Claws

Chumash Chant - Yucaipa 2006 Koda Ceremony

2006-10-18T10:58:00.000-07:00

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!!!

Indian Princess Aims

2006-10-17T18:03:00.000-07:00

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

2006-10-17T17:51:00.000-07:00

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

2006-10-17T15:30:00.000-07:00

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