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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 ...

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John Johnson presenting his research on the 1824 Chumash Uprising. Credit: Courtesy photo In February 1824, Chumash people at three local missions took up arms against soldiers and missionaries, ...

Being Chumash in today’s world must be a whirlwind experience, with vibrant creation stories that have survived thousands of years, ethnographic data describing near-idyllic life before the Europeans, ...

Wayne Chapman uses a hand drill to start a coal, which Chumash Elder Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto, seated, will use to start the fire. Credit: Matt Perko Members of the Chumash community gathered at UC ...

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 ...

In a grainy, undated video, a camera focuses on an elderly man with braided gray hair and a red headband festooned with feathers. The video, Grandfather Speaks, claims to feature the teachings of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a warm, windless morning, members of the yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash Tribe carried a candle-like flame up a ...

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 ...

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 ...

SANTA YNEZ — A generation ago, the ancient Chumash tongue of Samala was all but dead, its songs and sagas buried in a university basement beneath mountains of yellowing research notes. But now Samala ...