The Santa Ynez Chumash Museum and Cultural Center project team was recently presented with a 2023 Sustainable Innovation award by U.S. Green Building Council, Los Angeles, for their innovative use of ...

The gardens in the 3.5-acre Chumash Museum cultural park include more than 11,000 native plants and trees traditionally used for food, medicine and crafts, including cordage plants used in ...

Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) and the Chumash Signage Project Committee invite community members to help mark the Chumash Signage Project that has been added to the SBCC West Cliff Drive Campus ...

The Chumash Museum & Cultural Center in Santa Ynez, California, was designed by Seattle-based Jones and Jones Architects, who also did the landscape architecture for this project. The design emulates ...

The flight then whizzed above Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, which was once home to a large Chumash village, Houston said. Records show that the Chumash have occupied the area for about 18,000 ...

In Carpinteria, community is not just a word we use; it is a tradition we inherit. Long before our seaside town became known for its beaches and flower fields, survival here depended on cooperation.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (photo/chumashsanctuary.org) In a historic first, last week, the homelands and ocean waters of the Chumash Peoples on the central ...

Around 1915, the last known Chumash basket maker, Candelaria Valenzuela, died in Ventura County, and with her went a skill that had been fundamental to the Indigenous people who lived for thousands of ...

SANTA YNEZ, CA – Aug. 19, 2025 – To help a local school revitalize its sports complex, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians has committed a $500,000 matching grant toward the Cabrillo High Stadium ...

Born in Santa Maria, Ernest Houston thought he would work in the oil fields like his father. Instead, he’s working with the Northern Chumash Tribal Council to establish the Chumash Heritage National ...