December's Child
Subtitle: A Book of Chumash Oral Narratives
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: July 14, 1980
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780520040885
Subjects: Anthropology; Indigenous peoples; Oral history; Sociology; Ethnic Issues; USA; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; Social Science / Ethnic Studies
First sentence: Although the Chumash Indians seem to have engendered greater interest and respect among early explorers and missionaries than perhaps did any other group in California, they remain to this day a people shrouded in relative obscurity-an obscurity scarcely warranted by their obvious technological sophistication and general level of cultural complexity.