Members of the Chumash community on Friday rallied against Sable Offshore Corp.'s restart of oil production and said the plan threatens the environment ...

Community members gathered Friday morning near the dolphin statue on Stearns Wharf to support Indigenous voices.

Coastal Chumash leaders speak out with a cultural presentation and concerns about the Sable oil pipeline. They fear another ...

“The Annual Chumash Day Powwow and Intertribal Gathering is an opportunity for the City of Malibu to honor the original ...

The Chumash community is searching for a missing tomol, a 25-foot wooden canoe they believe was stolen from Santa Barbara’s ...

MORRO BAY, Calif. (CN) – The Chumash Indians claim California has no right to allow members of another tribe to climb Morro Rock, a 576-foot landmark at the edge of the Pacific Ocean. The Northern ...

A dramatic new mural depicting Chumash tribal history and the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary is brightening up a corner of San Luis Obispo County. The vivid artwork by Chumash ...

When America was gaining independence from Great Britain, the Chumash were losing culture, language and life.

Everyone thought the tall, strange white man was some kind of genius. But to teenage Ernestine De Soto he was a giant pain in the neck, a nosy, “Ichabod Crane-like” character who drew her mother’s ...

Members of the Chumash community gathered at UC Santa Barbara’s North Campus Open Space for an event that none of them had ever witnessed, a practice that had been lost for generations, that most ...

A sleek, mysterious, and occasionally vicious species, the shark has long stoked the fire of human fascination. In Polynesia, the shark god Kamohoali’i is credited with bringing volcanoes and surfing ...

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