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| Title | Article: The Linguistic and Cultural Renaissance of the Chumash People |
| Body | From http://www.actaonline.org/content/coming-home-linguistic-and-cultural-renaissance-chumash-people Coming Home: The Linguistic and Cultural Renaissance of the Chumash People On the dock, four paddlers stood with about two dozen friends, family, and members of a safety crew for a preparatory ceremony before they loaded into the tomol, a traditional Chumash canoe made from redwood planks strapped together and sealed with pitch. “It’s one thing that the tomol has done,” said Alan Salazar, who helped build the elye’wun in 1997 and has been present for every crossing. “It’s brought all Chumash together.” Hold on. Why, in a story about the revival of the Chumash language, am I talking about a canoe? Language, it turns out, is much like the glue of the culture. Said Steve Villa, Language Committee Chair with the Barbareño Chumash Council and a founder of Chumash Intertribal Singers, “The language is everything. With the language brings the people, and with the people you can think and see the world as your ancestors saw it.” Access the full article at http://www.actaonline.org/content/coming-home-linguistic-and-cultural-renaissance-chumash-people |
| Source | ACTA |
| Inputdate | 2010-10-17 07:33:04 |
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| Publishdate | 2010-10-18 00:00:00 |
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