Learning culture by building a Chumash canoe. Alan Salazar explains the importance of building the ancient Chumash canoes called tomols ... Chumash ancestors used the same wood for thousands of years to build these canoes called tomols.
Hammel-Sawyer is 1/16 Chumash, the great-great-great-granddaughter of Maria Ysidora del Refugio Solares, one of the most revered ancestors of the Santa YnezBand of Chumash Indians for her work in preserving its nearly lost Samala language.