Prior to the arrival of the Spanish, the masses of indigenous people living around the Santa Barbara Channel almost certainly outnumbered any other native population in what we today call California.

Gary Robinson has worked closely with Native American tribes for 45 years, but his cultural heritage wasn’t a big part of his upbringing. He was a city boy from Texas and doesn’t remember his parents ...

https://doi.org/10.5250/studamerindilite.22.2.1 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/studamerindilite.22.2.1 Copy URL See, for instance, Maggie Dwyer, Paul ...

Chumash peoples have spent decades standing up to those who falsely claim our identity and profit from our culture. A common argument we hear is, “Identity cannot be proven through colonial records.” ...

On a warm, windless morning, members of the yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash Tribe carried a candle-like flame up a hill in San Luis Obispo. Slowly, ytt Tribal Chair Mona Olivas Tucker ...