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

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 ...

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 ...

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And the name of a ranch on the outskirts of town. But why would this ranch and our high school be named “Two Villages”? Good question…. Credit: Courtesy GoletaHistory.com Dos Pueblos is in fact the ...

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 ...

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.

The stories of California’s indigenous populations have included very few happy endings in the last few hundred years. I learned about one such inspirational story in an L.A. Times article by Ian ...

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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 ...