Shell beads served as currency, exchanged alongside dried fish, baskets and obsidian tools for inland goods. The tomol represented more than transportation; it embodied Chumash engineering brilliance.

The Santa Ynez Chumash Museum and Cultural Center is open to the public Thursday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. More information and tickets are available at the museum's website.

Chumash tribe could help manage new marine sanctuary on California coast The Biden administration is moving ahead with what could be the largest national marine sanctuary in the continental U.S.

Chumash community member Karissa Valencia's animated fantasy-adventure preschool series, "Spirit Rangers," premieres on Netflix Monday, October 10 on Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Now, the Chumash tribe is leading a push to turn this section of coastline into a marine sanctuary six times the size of Yosemite National Park. Marine sanctuaries are the aquatic equivalents of ...

California’s first new national marine sanctuary in 32 years to ban offshore oil drilling along 100 miles of coastline Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary will protect waters off San Luis ...

Two centuries ago, the Chumash people living in the mission system rose up against their Spanish and Mexican rulers, launching a coordinated uprising and taking over three strongholds — Mission La ...