Ventureno

The Ventureño were Chumash people of the coast and valleys around the Santa Barbara Channel. Their villages included Mitsquanaqa'n and Shisholop, near the place where the Ventura River reaches the sea. In 1782 Franciscan missionaries founded San Buenaventura in this country, expecting Chumash labour to build and maintain it. Between 1805 and 1815 Chumash workers built channels and stone aqueducts to bring water from the Ventura River to the mission.