Talk:Chumash

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View comments (edit) Really a lengthy stub; has pic and map and is well-formatted, but needs expansion and maybe wikification. Skookum1 - May 11, 06

I noticed that there were 4 or 5 entries referencing the Chumash tribes in SoCal, but they all pointed to the Hebrew word of the same spelling. I started this brief stub(bette?) to differentiate betwixt the 2 and I hope someone more knowledgeable than I on this subject will elaborate.

If there's no objection, I will move this to Chumash. I've already pointed the redirect here, since not a single link to it was intended to refer to the Torah and I seriously doubt it will come up as often. (A quick disamb block at the top can be put in if someone honestly believes that anyone would link to Chumash to get to the Torah.) --Brion

Having heard no objection, it is so moved. --Brion 21:13 Sep 27, 2002 (UTC)

[edit] classification

Even Hokanists no longer accept Chumash as Hokan. The Chumash shared a few words for easily borrowed cultural items, such as shell-bead money, with their Esselen neighbors, and the Esselen were tentatively ID'd as Hokan, but that's hardly a basis for classification. --kwami 09:49, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Polynesian contact

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• Possible pre-Columbian contact with Polynesians
• Recent research indicates that the Chumash may have been visited by Polynesians between AD 500 and 700, nearly 1,000 years before Christopher Columbus reached North America. [1]

Has been removed over and over again with no explanation. It is sourced, and attributed, and qualifed. Whoever wants to remove it should give their reasons. -Will Beback 08:16, 1 May 2006 (UTC)