The Santa Ynez Chumash Museum and Cultural Center has opened a new temporary fine art exhibition and self-guided audio tour, ...

Courtesy SANTA YNEZ, CA – May 27, 2026 — The Santa Ynez Chumash Museum and Cultural Center has officially launched ...

It was a historic day for the city of San Luis Obispo, the county and most importantly the yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash Tribe. For the first time in the county’s history, a 15-acre ...

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, ...

Crystal Bermudez is your community news reporter covering northern Santa Barbara County, including the Santa Maria, Lompoc and Santa Ynez valleys. After two decades of vision, persistence, and ...

I recently had the good fortune to get a preview tour of the new Chumash museum, which opens to the public May 15. It is, in a word, spectacular. The museum challenges and will transform the way that ...

A screen of fog lifted to reveal a bright blue stretch of the Pacific Ocean on Monday — unveiling what will soon be the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary. The Northern Chumash Tribal Council ...

John Johnson, a leading scholar of Chumash Indian culture and head of the anthropology department at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, joins Larry Mantle to talk about his DNA studies which ...

Chumash Day Powwow and Intertribal Gathering at Malibu Bluffs Park is a gathering of families and an homage to ancestors and Native American culture. And when it returns for its 25th anniversary on ...