How the Chumash Made
Canoes
Once a long time ago, the Chumash
didn’t have canoes to sail across the ocean of the southern coast. The problem was that to spread their population,
they had to build on a stranded island.
The Chumash people tried to swim to the stranded island, but they couldn’t
swim that far. The Chumash people wanted
to ride the crocodiles to the island but the chief said, “That’s a really bad
idea. We’re not even crocodile riders.” The chief stared at the crocodiles for a
moment and then got an idea of constructing boat,s called canoes. The chief asked his people to build canoes,
big and small. So the Chumash people
tried weaving grass together, but it wasn’t strong. Then the Chumash had an idea of using rocks
but they sank into the water. Then, the
Chumash used wood for the canoes and it worked perfectly. Now that the Chumash had canoes, they could
do many things. They could spread their
population, they could explore other islands, and hopefully not get attacked by
the Gabrielino. The Chumash would now
have explorers to explore islands of the southern coast. And that’s how the Chumash made canoes.
