CAMARILLO, Calif.-Cal State University Channel Islands is hosting a new online Chumash Language Dictionary. Timothy Henry Rodriguez started developing the dictionary by studying the original John ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peering at a river mouth where Ventureño Chumash once paddled in a canoe they called “tomol” and gathered small mussels, or "kiw," ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For thousands of years, the Chumash people lived along California's Central Coast and on its Channel Islands. Then the newcomers ...

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

Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto, who passed away at age 87, served as an important link to Santa Barbara’s Chumash heritage. A prominent leader and spokesperson in the Chumash community, she was the last ...

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE — For more than 50 years, Vandenberg Space Force Base has embraced the rich history of the local Native American Chumash people through base access, cultural learning ...

Tribal Chairman Kenneth Kahn, Assemblymember Gregg Hart, Chumash Museum Board Chairwoman Kathleen Marshall, and state Sen. Monique Limón pose for a picture with resolutions presented for the ...

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 ...

For thousands of years, the Chumash people lived along California's Central Coast and on its Channel Islands. Then the newcomers arrived — Spanish explorers, Catholic missionaries, Mexican rancheros, ...