"The Chumash World at European Contact is a major achievement that will be required reading and a fundamental reference in a variety of disciplines for years to

As Reviewed by Eugene N. Anderson, University of California, Riverside in The Journal of California Anthropology, Vol. 2, No. 2 (WINTER 1975), pp. 241-244:A chi

A collection of nine legends about Coyote and his friends as told by the Chumash Indians who lived in Southern California.

This history of Native Americans, from the period of first contactto the present day, offers an important variation to existingstudies by placing the lives and

"[A] highly compelling documentation of the cultural, educational, and economic revitalization of our tribe... 'Chumash Renaissance' is very valuable in that it