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  CHUMASHAN 
  FAMILY. 
  67 
  

  

  to 
  represent 
  distinct 
  families, 
  a 
  conclusion 
  subsequent 
  investigations 
  

   have 
  sustained. 
  

  

  In 
  1SSI 
  Mr. 
  Gatschet 
  visited 
  the 
  remnants 
  of 
  this 
  tribe 
  in 
  Louis- 
  

   iana. 
  He 
  found 
  about 
  fifty 
  individuals, 
  a 
  portion 
  of 
  whom 
  lived 
  

   on 
  Grand 
  River, 
  but 
  the 
  larger 
  part 
  in 
  Charenton, 
  St. 
  Mary's 
  Parish. 
  

   The 
  tribal 
  organization 
  was 
  abandoned 
  in 
  1879 
  cm 
  the 
  death 
  of 
  their 
  

   chief. 
  

  

  CHUMASHAN 
  FAMILY. 
  

  

  > 
  Santa 
  Barbara. 
  Latham 
  in 
  Trans. 
  Philolog. 
  Sue 
  Lond.,85. 
  1856 
  (includes 
  Santa 
  

   Barbara. 
  Santa 
  Inez, 
  San 
  Luis 
  Obispo 
  languages). 
  Buschmann, 
  Spuren 
  der 
  

   aztek. 
  Sprache, 
  531, 
  535, 
  538, 
  602,1859. 
  Latham, 
  Opuscula, 
  351, 
  1860. 
  Powell 
  

   in 
  Cont. 
  N. 
  A. 
  Eth.. 
  Hi. 
  550. 
  ."it;;, 
  1877 
  (Kasua, 
  Santa 
  Inez, 
  Id. 
  of 
  Santa 
  Cruz, 
  

   Santa 
  Barbara). 
  Gatschet 
  in 
  IT. 
  S.Geog. 
  Surv. 
  W. 
  100th 
  M. 
  , 
  vn, 
  419, 
  1879 
  (cites 
  

   La 
  Purisima. 
  Santa 
  Inez, 
  Santa 
  Barbara, 
  Kasua, 
  Mugu. 
  Santa 
  Cruz 
  Id.). 
  

  

  X 
  Santa 
  Barbara, 
  Gatschet 
  in 
  Mag. 
  Am. 
  Hist.. 
  156, 
  1877 
  (Santa 
  Inez, 
  Santa 
  Barbara, 
  

   Santa 
  Cruz 
  Id., 
  San 
  Luis 
  Obispo, 
  San 
  Antonio). 
  

  

  Derivation: 
  From 
  Churnash, 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  Santa 
  Rosa 
  Islanders. 
  

  

  The 
  several 
  dialects 
  of 
  this 
  family 
  have 
  long 
  been 
  known 
  under 
  

   the 
  group 
  or 
  family 
  name, 
  "Santa 
  Barbara," 
  which 
  seems 
  first 
  to 
  

   have 
  been 
  used 
  in 
  a 
  comprehensive 
  sense 
  by 
  Latham 
  in 
  1850, 
  who 
  

   included 
  under 
  it 
  three 
  languages, 
  viz 
  : 
  Santa 
  Barbara, 
  Santa 
  Inez, 
  

   and 
  San 
  Luis 
  Obispo. 
  The 
  term 
  has 
  no 
  special 
  pertinence 
  as 
  a 
  

   family 
  designation, 
  except 
  from 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  the 
  Santa 
  Barbara 
  

   Mission, 
  around 
  which 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  dialects 
  of 
  the 
  family 
  was 
  spoken, 
  

   is 
  perhaps 
  more 
  widely 
  known 
  than 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  others. 
  Neverthe- 
  

   less, 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  family 
  name 
  first 
  applied 
  to 
  the 
  group 
  and 
  has, 
  more- 
  

   over, 
  passed 
  into 
  current 
  use 
  its 
  claim 
  to 
  recognition 
  would 
  not 
  be 
  

   questioned 
  were 
  it 
  not 
  a 
  compound 
  name. 
  Under 
  the 
  rule 
  adopted 
  

   the 
  latter 
  fact 
  necessitates 
  its 
  rejection. 
  As 
  a 
  suitable 
  substitute 
  

   the 
  term 
  Chumashan 
  is 
  here 
  adopted. 
  Churnash 
  is 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  

   the 
  Santa 
  Rosa 
  Islanders, 
  who 
  spoke 
  a 
  dialect 
  of 
  this 
  stock, 
  and 
  is 
  a 
  

   term 
  widely 
  known 
  among 
  the 
  Indians 
  of 
  this 
  family. 
  

  

  The 
  Indians 
  of 
  this 
  family 
  lived 
  in 
  villages, 
  the 
  villages 
  as 
  a 
  

   whole 
  apparently 
  having 
  no 
  political 
  connection, 
  and 
  hence 
  there 
  

   appears 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  no 
  appellation 
  in 
  use 
  among 
  them 
  to 
  designate 
  

   themselves 
  as 
  a 
  whole 
  people. 
  

  

  Dialects 
  of 
  this 
  language 
  were 
  spoken 
  at 
  the 
  Missions 
  of 
  San 
  

   Buenaventura. 
  Santa 
  Barbara, 
  Santa 
  Inez, 
  Purisima, 
  and 
  San 
  Luis 
  

   Obispo. 
  Kindred 
  dialects 
  were 
  spoken 
  also 
  upon 
  the 
  Islands 
  of 
  

   Santa 
  Rosa 
  and 
  Santa 
  Cruz, 
  and 
  also, 
  probably, 
  upon 
  such 
  other 
  of 
  

   the 
  Santa 
  Barbara 
  Islands 
  as 
  formerly 
  were 
  permanently 
  inhabited. 
  

  

  These 
  dialects 
  collectively 
  form 
  a 
  remarkably 
  homogeneous 
  family, 
  

   all 
  of 
  them, 
  with 
  the 
  exception 
  of 
  the 
  San 
  Luis 
  Obispo, 
  being 
  

   closely 
  related 
  and 
  containing 
  very 
  many 
  words 
  in 
  common. 
  Vo- 
  

   cabularies 
  representing 
  six 
  dialects 
  of 
  the 
  language 
  are 
  in 
  possession 
  

   of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Ethnology. 
  

  

  