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.

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.

Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation member Michael Kiserotti invited everyone — not just tribal members — to form a human chain to pass the stones from the beached tomols to the base of Lisamu’.

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.

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 ...

Gerardo Werthein, Argentina’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs, was sworn in by President Javier Milei on a Chumash, the five books of Moses in modern book form. Werthein, 68, who was born into a ...

SANTA YNEZ, CA — February 26, 2024 — The Chumash Fire Department recently hosted a group of young students to learn about fire preparedness at the tribe’s fire station on the Santa Ynez Reservation.

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 ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Members of the Chumash community will celebrate their 20th Tomol Crossing to the Channel Islands on Saturday. "Our tomol culture was put to sleep for a long time, for 150 ...

Gloria Lopez performs with Chumash dancers and singers at the Northern Chumash Tribal Council’s Indigenous People’s Day celebration in Pismo Beach on Oct. 14, 2024. Expanding sanctuary boundaries ...

The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians has announced that its upcoming 2024 Chumash Charity Golf Classic will raise funds for three local beneficiaries No paywalls. No subscriptions.

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