Chumash Day (8th of July)

The Chumash or the Islander are a group of people who inhabited Santa Barbara once for many years. Today, there are no pure Chumash left. However, some of them intermarried with Mexicans. Some of them died after being placed in reservations. After the Spanish arrived in their region, they confined them to a strict schedule of working and practicing religion. The new religion they brought in with them of course, Christianity.
The Spanish were settlers but they were also immigrants. They didn’t immigrate because of poverty but they were looking for more land, wealth and power. The Chumash were the original inhabitants of the land because they were there first. Historically, they were immigrants too. According to historical data, they immigrated from Siberia to Alaska to California through the Beningia. It could be argued that the Chumash and the Spanish have no real claim to the land because they are both immigrants but the Chumash lived there for centuries making them more attached to their land. Maybe they don’t have any legal documents to emphasize on that but there is a lot of powerful historical data ensuring this.
Later that day, we satisfied our taste buds with Chinese food. We ate at Panda Express, a chain restaurant specializing in Chinese food. It doesn’t only cater to Chinese immigrants here but it is also popular in other American communities. In the restaurant, only two families were of Chinese descent. The rest were from different ethnicities. Interestingly, the employees there were Hispanic-Americans. I’ve come to the conclusion that they are the main labor force in America when it comes to lower-income jobs. They do what other Americans don’t want to do. Make fries and hamburgers, clean McDonald’s floors and paint houses.
They do the jobs Moroccans do in France, Turks do in Germany and Pakistani’s do in England.