The Ventura City Council unanimously approved a Chumash Land Acknowledgement Oct. 7, described as an ancient custom of the ...

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - "This is Chumash Land" could be seen spray-painted in red on a wall near Old Mission Santa Barbara Friday morning. It is unknown at this time who vandalized the wall on private ...

At the American Indian and Indigenous Student Association Center, Indigenous or native-identifying students can find a ...

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The Chumash were master seafarers, navigating the Santa Barbara Channel in their renowned tomol — plank canoes built from driftwood, natural tar and plant fibers. These vessels connected mainland ...

Santa Barbarians enjoy shouting “Viva La Fiesta!” as we celebrate Old Spanish Days — but what if we also celebrated Old Chumash Days? What would we shout then? Speaking for myself, I knew nothing ...

The yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash Tribe will conduct a second cultural burn at the Johnson Ranch Open Space in San Luis Obispo on Friday — this time at a new location on the property.

For more than 10,000 years, Native Americans have been living along California’s central coast, an area of breathtaking beauty with stunning turquoise waters rich in biodiversity. Now, in the first ...

A stretch of land that is expected to be designated as a national marine sanctuary by next year would preserve more than 5,000 square miles of ocean off California’s Central Coast. It was the dream of ...