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- Term
Fernando Librado
- Alternate Term
Librado, Fernando
Librado, Fernando?
Fernando Librado?
- Nationality/Ethnicity
Chumash
- Remarks
Chumash elder Fernando Librado -Kitsepawit was born in 1839 at the San Buenaventura Mission and was the last known full-blooded island Chumash. He was a member of the Brotherhood-of-the-Canoe and was a master tomol builder. He was a philosopher, storyteller, observer and was an informant for anthropologist/linguist J. P. Harrington. He died in 1915 in Santa Barbara.
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